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Definition of Kebbuck
1. a whole cheese [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kebbuck
Literary usage of Kebbuck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Place Names of West Aberdeenshire by James Macdonald, Donald Mackinnon (1899)
"Although this burn rises at the foot of kebbuck Knowe, which looks like a Scotch
name, meaning a knowe like a kebbuck or cheese, or the site of a sheiling ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"kebbuck, a cheese : " syne draws her ... to cackle, to giggle loudly (as a girl) :
an' her knife," 11 ; "a kebbuck-heel," 11; ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"kebbuck [a cheese; "kebbuck-hecl," end of a cheese]. To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"An' sits down by the fire ; Syne draws her kebbuck and her knife— The lasses they
are shyer. —BURNS : Tkt Holy Fair. ..."
5. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1896)
"kebbuck, a cheese: ' syne draws her kebbuck an' her knife,' i. 45. 17; ' her
weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell,' i. 110. 15 ; 'a keb- buck-heel'=the last crust of a ..."
6. Tales of the Scottish Peasantry by Alexander Bethune, John Bethune (1884)
"Dear me, Marion, but matters are mendin wi' you," said one of them : " there's
a hale kebbuck, I declare, an" no a bit heel, as I've seen ye hae. ..."
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