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While he, wi 'hingin' lips and snakin ', [sneering]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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(fiddle-strings) are a 'hingin' lowse, an 'there's no grip eneuch
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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"Do ye ca 'that dischairgin' yer duty to my bairns, to set them the example o 'hingin' at a quean's âpron-strings, and fillin 'her lug wi' idle havers?
David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864
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I'm thinkin ye've had eneuch o 'hingin' ower the fire this het mornin '. "
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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BBC2's Newsnight showed far better judgement by going to town with it as the lead story and at last giving proper coverage to the crisis surrounding Labour's Scottish Leader, Wendy Alexander, who's job as they say north of the border is now "hingin by a shoogly peg" (ask F. Nelson for a translation).
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BBC2's Newsnight showed far better judgement by going to town with it as the lead story and at last giving proper coverage to the crisis surrounding Labour's Scottish Leader, Wendy Alexander, who's job as they say north of the border is now "hingin by a shoogly peg" (ask F. Nelson for a translation).
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Ang aming mga ninuno herbivore hingin ang mga organ sa break down planta selulusa.
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Beatin heuks ontae tippets an they're hingin on his chair.
The Fisherman's Wife 1992
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"Hear, hear," said a 'the rest; an' wi 'that Bandy got up on the boiler-heid on his belly, an' turnin 'roond, sat wi' the legs o 'him hingin' ower the front o 'the boiler, juist like a laddie sittin' on the dyke at the Common.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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Aboot a week syne I was busy at the back door, hingin 'oot some bits o' things, an ', hearin' some din i 'the back shop, I took a bit glint in at the winda.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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