hoddin

I speired at her whaur she had hod it, but she juist said, 'What would I be doin' hoddin't '?'

A Window in Thrums 1898

Avenel carries his crest so much above those of the neighbouring baronage, and how it is that men, by valour and wisdom, work their way from the hoddin-gray coat to the cloak of scarlet and gold.

The Abbot 2008

It was evening when Mr Henry Morton perceived an old woman, wrapped in her tartan plaid, supported by a stout, stupid-looking fellow, in hoddin-grey, approach the house of Milnwood.

Old Mortality 2004

Wear hoddin [Footnote: homespun] gray, an 'a' that;

Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

But instead of chained mail and helmet, he was to be seen every day walking about amongst his people in hoddin-gray coat, nankeen breeches, white vest, and rumpled white hat -- plain, easy, manly, and unaffected in all things.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Brunswick Dock gates, arrayed in long-tailed coats of hoddin-gray, corduroy knee-breeches, and shod with shoes that raised a mighty dust.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

It was evening when Mr Henry Morton perceived an old woman, wrapped in her tartan plaid, supported by a stout, stupid-looking fellow, in hoddin-grey, approach the house of Milnwood.

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

It was evening when Mr Henry Morton perceived an old woman, wrapped in her tartan plaid, supported by a stout, stupid-looking fellow, in hoddin-grey, approach the house of Milnwood.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

So I went down to Leith, and, exchanging my hoddin grey coat of my mother's spinning for such a jacket as this, I entered my name at the rendezvous as an able-bodied landsman, and sailed with the tender round to Plymouth, where they were fitting out

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

Based on "The Bard's Song" in "The Jolly Beggars" RW glossary: aboon: above bear the gree: Take first place, be foremost birkie: person coof: fool, idle/worthless fellow fa ': fault gowd: gold hamely: homely, humble hoddin grey: coarse wool mauna: must not

A Man's a Man for All that 1800