teugh

He's a teugh carle, Elshie! he grips like a smith's vice. ''

The Black Dwarf 1898

But dinna ye fear, mither, I'm ower teugh to be gotten the better o 'by the likes o' them.

The Garret and the Garden 1859

My auld, ga'd gleyde o 'a meere has huch-yall'd up hill and down brae, in Scotland and England, as teugh and birnie as a vera devil wi' me.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

Scotland and England, as teugh and birnie as a very deil wi 'me.

The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

She’ll be as teugh as bow-strings and bend-leather!”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

He’s a teugh carle Elshie! he grips like a smith’s vice.”

The Black Dwarf 2004

“Weel, then, ye maun ken we’re starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, — and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.

Old Mortality 2004

"Weel, then, ye maun ken we're starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, -- and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Weel, then, ye maun ken we're starving, as I said before, and have been mair days than ane; and the Major has sworn that he expects relief daily, and that he will not gie ower the house to the enemy till we have eaten up his auld boots, -- and they are unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forby being teugh in the upper-leather.

Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

She'll be as teugh as bow-strings and bend-leather! "

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801