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  • Can they legally still call themselves mtv? moron tv, mini brains tv, more drucken-sociopaths tv … …

    MTV's 'Jersey Shore' -- let the fist pumping commence | EW.com 2009

  • I'm shure we hadna abune a moofu 'o' tea drucken, an 'Sandy was juist awa' to tak 'aff' the ham, when the fryin 'pan was knockit ooten his hand, an' doon the lum cam 'a pozel o' bricks an 'shute that wudda filled a cairt.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Who can fail to mourn the end of poor, harmless, gallant, drucken Jocky B----, who gave his life for his love of what he conceived to be sport?

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • His "Auld Gudeman, ye're a drucken carle," "Jenny's Bawbee," and "Jenny dang the Weaver," are of another kind, and perhaps fuller of the peculiar spirit of the man.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • I'm shure I'm no complainin ', but Sandy Bowden's been an unsatisfaktory man in mony weys; but, as the Bible says, we've a' a dwang o 'some kind, an' if I hadna gotten Sandy, weel, I michta haen a drucken son, or a licht-heided dauchter.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • I gave Isaac a dram to kep his heart up, and he sung and leuch as if he had been boozing with some of his drucken cronies; for feint a hair cared he about auld kirkyards, or vouts, or dead folk in their winding-sheets, with the wet grass growing over them.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • I've to keep my views to mysel ', for thae young lads are all drucken-daft with their wee books about Cawpital and

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Dow, drucken, cursing, poaching -- Rob Dow, to come to the kirk to annoy the minister.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • Nae man alive can cuitle up Donald better than mysell --- I hae bought wi 'them, sauld wi' them, eaten wi 'them, drucken wi' them '' ------

    Rob Roy 1887

  • "May I, Roy Campbell, be boiled in my ain still-kettle, distilled through my ain worm, an 'drucken by a set o' reckless loons, if that's no my ain Flora that's speakin 'till the man himsel'!"

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

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