Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
nothing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm no denyin 'naething' at the buik tells me; ye ken me better nor that, Janet; but there's mony a thing it says
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"Now, a've a wumman to home, to say naething o 'three bairns --"
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But saving ae crown-piece, he'd naething else beside,
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Hutcheon had nae will to the wark, but he had stood by Dougal in battle and broil, and he wad not fail him at this pinch; so down the carles sat ower a stoup of brandy, and Hutcheon, who was something of a clerk, would have read a chapter of the Bible; but Dougal would hear naething but a blaud of Davie Lindsay, whilk was the waur preparation.
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Plainstanes, ET PER CONTRA — if I am laird of naething else, I am ay a
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But new lords new laws — naething but fine and imprisonment, and the game no a feather the plentier.
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“I am saying naething against her conduct,” said the dame;
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Better say naething about the laird, my man, and tell me instead, what sort of a chap ye are that are sae ready to cleik in with an auld gaberlunzie fiddler?
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And his ain bairn is brought back this blessed day, and he is lying there stark and stiff, and kens naething of its health and sickness!
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“I ken naething about that,” said Tibb, — “but his likeness it was, that I will be sworn to, just as he used to ride out a-hawking; for having enemies in the country, he seldom laid off the breast-plate; and for my part,” added Tibb, “I dinna think a man looks like a man unless he has steel on his breast, and by his side too.”
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