Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
yald .
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- adjective Scotland
Vigorous ;strong ;healthy . - adjective Scotland
Active ;sprightly ;alert . - adjective Scotland
Supple ; active;athletic ;nimble .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There the shepherds they are gathering up wi 'monie a guid yauld grew,
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` ` Od, ance I gat a wee soupled yestreen, I was as yauld as an eel.
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But there's mony yauld chields amang thae volunteers; and I mauna say muckle about them that's no weel and no very able, because I am something that gate mysell --- But we'se do our best. ''
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It's true, she's as poor's a sang-maker and as hard's a kirk, and tipper-taipers when she taks the gate, first like a lady's gentlewoman in a minuwae, or a hen on a het girdle; but she's a yauld, poutherie
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It's true, she's as poor's a sang-maker and as hard's a kirk, and tipper-taipers when she taks the gate, first like a lady's gentlewoman in a minuwae, or a hen on a het girdle; but she's a yauld, poutherie
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a coble, and a _yauld_ old Celt, its master, and are rowed across to
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But there's mony yauld chields amang thae volunteers; and I mauna say muckle about them that's no weel and no very able, because I am something that gate mysell -- But we'se do our best. "
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But there's mony yauld chields amang thae volunteers; and I mauna say muckle about them that's no weel and no very able, because I am something that gate mysell -- But we'se do our best. "
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"Od, ance I gat a wee soupled yestreen, I was as yauld as an eel.
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"Od, ance I gat a wee soupled yestreen, I was as yauld as an eel.
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