Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuilyie
Literary usage of Tuilyie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"tuilyie is used, rather ludicrously, for a battle or skirmish. ... tuilyie- turn
dogs come happing hume," those who are inclined to brawls, generally suffer ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"tuilyie is used, rather ludicrously, for a battle, or skirmish. ... Perhaps the
term tuilyie may be here used, ал that sport may have been carried on ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are Explained in by John Jamieson (1867)
"To tuilyie, TOOLIE, vn To quarrel ; to squabble ; to struggle, S. Skene. ...
From tuilyie, and Wop, to throw. TUILL,». ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... the speech of the people with whom they amalgamated. This accounts for the
many Danish words both in modern Gaelic and in Lowland Scotch. tuilyie or ..."