Lexicographical Neighbors of Paitricks
Literary usage of Paitricks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... intil the north corner, and a' the paitricks intil the south—gie Gurney the
snipe for his share, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"paitricks are maist as bad, though turnips and stubble are no to be compared wi'
the heather, nor walkin' amang them like, the far-aff braes, the win'y taps ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"There are some things that a man never gets accustomed to, and the start- in' o'
a hare's ane o' them ;—so is the whur o' a covey o' paitricks—and ..."
4. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1877)
"... weel-ken'd for souple tail, And geds c for greed, Since, dark in Death's '
fish-creel, we wail' Tam Samson dead ! Rejoice, ye birring paitricks a'; ..."
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