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  • -- Poor thing! she's been doin 'something wrang, to gang slinkin' aboot i 'the gloamin' like a baukie (bat), wi 'her plaid ower her heid.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • "You bear in mind, Master Roger, that every leevin 'thing ye see, frae baukie-bird tae blackfish, kens some bit cantrip he doesna tell, and ye'll be a

    Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

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  • The razorbill. Term from Orkney.

    May 13, 2011