Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
stoit .
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Examples
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I was gaun to write ye a lang pystle, but, Gude forgie me, I gat mysel sae notouriously fou the day after kail-time that I can hardly stoiter but and ben.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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I was gaun to write you a lang pystle, but, Gude forgie me, I gat mysel sae noutouriously bitchify'd the day after kail-time, that I can hardly stoiter but and ben.
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At the same time, to clear his way, and the better to enable him to take a good mark, he gave James Batter a shove, that made him stoiter against the wall, and snacked the good new farthing tobacco-pipe, that James was taking his first whiff out of; crying, at the same blessed moment -- "Hold out o 'my road, ye long withered wabster.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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