Lexicographical Neighbors of Misteuk
Literary usage of Misteuk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"My grannie she bought me a beuk, And I held awa to the school; I fear I my talent
misteuk But what will ye hae of a fool ? For drink I would venture my neck ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... auld folk the thing misteuk ; To W. Simpson. PS Folk thought them ruin'd
stick-an-stowe, . . Ib. Follow. Quoth Mary, *' Love, I like the burn, ..."
3. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect by Robert Burns (1824)
"... auld folk the thing misteuk; For 'twas the auld moon turn'da neuk, An' out o'
sight, ..."
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