deaved

"smeikin horn" on foot, and with the means of self-defence at command, than lie choked in bed, and "deaved" by the stock and horn, the squalling bagpipe, and the eternal --

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819

Sandy cudna sit still at nicht, an 'he sang an' smokit till, atween bein 'deaved an' scumfished, I was nearhand seek.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Sandy an 'him got started aboot mustaings, an' Indeens, an 'boomirangs, an' scoots an 'ither scoondrils, till I cudna be deaved ony langer wi' their forrin blethers; so ben to but-the-hoose I gaed to hae a twa-handit crack wi '

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"All the folk in Edinburgh will be coming, and the poor woman be deaved with their spiering."

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

You may be sure this was to touch a welcome topic, and I sat for some time in the midst of my learned counsel, almost deaved with their talk but extremely little the wiser for its purport.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Catrine's a good lass enough, and a good-hearted, and lets herself be deaved all day with a runt of an auld wife like me.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

The house full of old family relics and pictures, the sun shining on them through the small deep windows with their plate glass; and there, blinking at the sun, and chattering contentedly, is a parrot, that might, for its looks of eld, have been in the ark, and domineered over and _deaved_ the dove.

Stories of Childhood Various 1885

I guessed there'd be no luck about that engagement, when I was so deaved with 'poor dears,' and 'poor friends.'

The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town L. T. Meade 1884

"The gudewife is keepin 'up a ding-dong frae mornin' till nicht aboot ma face, and a '' m fair deaved (deafened), so a '' m watchin 'for MacLure tae get a bottle as he comes wast; yon's him noo."

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878