Lexicographical Neighbors of Paitrick
Literary usage of Paitrick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"... Ye grouse that crap the heather bud ; Ye curlews calling thro' a clud ; Ye
whistling plover ; An' mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood ! ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... [a partridge]. ye whirring paitrick brood ; . ... An' brought a paitrick to
the grun', . Ep. toj. Rt 7. ..."
3. The Speaker (1913)
""When ye're ready, paitrick, there's twa or three little ... o' grass and a sta'
in his stable till she followed her maister " "Dinna mind me, paitrick, ..."
4. Chambers's New Reciter by Israel Zangwill (1901)
"Na, na, paitrick, naething can be dune, an' it's ower late tae send for ony doctor.
... When ye 're ready, paitrick, there 's twa or three little ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"V. paitrick. Planché describes the partiel as " a covering for the neck and throat
similar to what is now called a habit- shirt"; and states that "it ..."
6. Raiderland: All about Grey Galloway, Its Stories, Traditions, Characters by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joseph Pennell (1904)
"'Lift me up, paitrick,' said my father, 'till I see again the bonny tide as it
... 'Even thus has my life been, paitrick. I have been most of my time but a ..."
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