wratch

I canna be bathered wi 'the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin 'little wratch.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

If that waefu ', cunnin', tramping wratch Clockie didna come tae the door, where I was sittin ', an' askit for the new minister.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

And in the case of downright fraud -- finding out what a man had offered for his farm and taking it over his head -- the offender was "an ill gettit wratch."

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

A 'micht hae jaloused (suspected) it wesna the sermon the wratch wantit, for he hed the impidence tae complain that the

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

He said he wes up for a walk an 'juist dropped in, the wratch.'

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

Will he daur till imaigine 'at he wad be sittin' there, an 'me haudin' him company, gien I believed him cawpable o 'turnin' oot sic a meeserable, contemptible wratch!

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

Captain d'Aillebout, the commandant, was on the wratch, pacing the battery platform; but he seems to have seen nothing unusual till about a hundred and fifty men had got on shore, when they had the folly to announce their presence by three cheers.

A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Francis Parkman 1858

"Little Andrew, the wratch, has been makin 'a totum wi' his faither's ae razor; an 'the pair man's trying to shave himsel yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs."

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

What Obama is trying to do has NOTHING to do with giving in or appeasing the enemy in order to not catch their wratch.

Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009