wuddy
Scots
Noun
wuddy (plural wuddies)
- gallows
- 1746, Andrew Lang, The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond:
- And the wuddy has her ain, and we twa are left alane, / Free o' Carlisle gaol in the dawing.
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- 1817 Walter Scott, Rob Roy
- "Conscience! if I am na clean bumbaized,—you, ye cheat-the-wuddy rogue, you here on your venture in the tolbooth o' Glasgow? What d' ye think's the value o' your head?"
- 1836, John Mackay Wilson, Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders volume III, page 69 (from Dictionary of the Scots Language)
- He had nae mair [honour] than ony auld jevel wha ever cheated the wuddy.
- (Can we date this quote?), Robert Kerr, My Father's Address to his Auld Dog Laddie:
- I'll sooner see them a' in wuddies, / An' twisted fast / Ere I shall make my puir auld Laddie / Sae draw his last!
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