Lexicographical Neighbors of Thairm
Literary usage of Thairm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"137. tion to the belly or gut of man, S. " A wide thairm has seldom a long arm,"
Loth. This is obviously the primary and literal sense of the word. 3. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
""Thee kye," "Thee folk," etc. Compare THAME and THOR. thairm ... Lovingly plied
hair and thairm together " (that is, played the fiddle). THAME, them, those. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
""Thee kye," " Thee folk," etc. Compare THAME and THOR. thairm ... Lovingly plied
hair and thairm together " (that is, played the fiddle). ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"On W. Chalmers, Inspiring bold John Barleycorn ! . . Тат о Shanter. //. O'er-arching,
mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, The Brigs of Ayr. 8. M'Lauchlan, thairm ..."
5. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"137. tion to the belly or gut of man, S. " A wide thairm has seldom a long arm,"
Loth. This is obviously the primary and literal sense of the word. 3. ..."
6. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
""Thee kye," "Thee folk," etc. Compare THAME and THOR. thairm ... Lovingly plied
hair and thairm together " (that is, played the fiddle). THAME, them, those. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
""Thee kye," " Thee folk," etc. Compare THAME and THOR. thairm ... Lovingly plied
hair and thairm together " (that is, played the fiddle). ..."
8. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"On W. Chalmers, Inspiring bold John Barleycorn ! . . Тат о Shanter. //. O'er-arching,
mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, The Brigs of Ayr. 8. M'Lauchlan, thairm ..."
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