camstairy

All right, then'the Minister's cat is a camstairy cat.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

'She's a some camstairy (unmanageable) wife, that grannie o' yours, 'said Mr. Lammie, when Robert returned the shilling with Mr.. Falconer's message,' but I reckon I maun pit it i 'my pooch, for she will hae her ain gait, an' I dinna want to strive wi 'her.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837

a pictur 'to see him stan'in wi' 's back to the door like a camstairy

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

"Ah!" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming, -- "idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.

Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896