Lexicographical Neighbors of Murgeons
Literary usage of Murgeons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Mortality by Walter SCOTT (1895)
"Cornet: a horn-shaped wind instrument. Sackbut: a kind of trumpet. Psaltery: a
kind of harp. murgeons: grimaces. Jenny-flections: genuflections ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"... murgeons to throw glamour in your een, an' gar you trow she was an angel ?
I managed otherwise ; but it is best to tell a' plain out, like friends, ..."
3. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"... at least wi' his auld mither's consent, make murgeons or jenny-flections, as
they ca' them, in the house of the prelates and ..."
4. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... Making odd murgeons with their looks askance, Sometimes they dive, sometimes
they did advance ..."
5. Old Mortality by Walter SCOTT (1895)
"Cornet: a horn-shaped wind instrument. Sackbut: a kind of trumpet. Psaltery: a
kind of harp. murgeons: grimaces. Jenny-flections: genuflections ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"... murgeons to throw glamour in your een, an' gar you trow she was an angel ?
I managed otherwise ; but it is best to tell a' plain out, like friends, ..."
7. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"... at least wi' his auld mither's consent, make murgeons or jenny-flections, as
they ca' them, in the house of the prelates and ..."
8. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... Making odd murgeons with their looks askance, Sometimes they dive, sometimes
they did advance ..."
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