Lexicographical Neighbors of Thigging
Literary usage of Thigging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1876)
"... that early in the eighteenth century what we find therein called " thigging
or cursing any person or family," was held to be a serious offence, ..."
2. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"The writer conversed with an old man of ninety-nine years of age who went round
thigging with the daughter of his chief after her marriage. ..."
3. Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness, from the Tenth Century by James Traill Calder (1887)
"The following amusing anecdote is given in the Banffshire Journal:—"An old man,
who had frequently tried the thigging, used to say with glee—' I kent fu to ..."
4. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, Sr., Sir Walter Scott (2001)
"legged Hieland gillies that will neither work nor want, and maun gang thigging
... o' the country whenever the laird likes; and that's the * thigging and ..."
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