speiring

A man from the far end of the room came up, and instead of "speiring" the question found fault with him and denounced him.

Salubrities I Have Met 1920

Whisht, now, take tha speiring tae yon silly phouka, he's a fancy for it.

War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

He was a rare nuisance here, speiring after the laird.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

The neist thing I knew was Corrie banging on my door the morn and speiring did I know that the laird was in a barrel over at the quay.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

"Here was father hame frae the shearing with his eyes blurred, speiring for you to read to him!"

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

"Ay, lassie, though you're only an Egyptian I would hae ta'en you wi 'me to hear Mr. Duthie, but it's speiring ower muckle o' a woman to expect her to gang to the kirk in her ilka day claethes."

The Little Minister 1898

He lay a 'the simmer; and wha was sae kind as come speiring for him, but Tod Lapraik!

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

"She's a greedy bodie that Mrs. Wallace: I wouldna wonder but she's speiring him for bawbees."

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

Cargill; "at ony rate, he would gie advice worth speiring after."

Scottish sketches Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

That is a bygane, and there is nae use at a 'speiring after it.

Scottish sketches Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875