couthy

You can use your own couthy metaphor to describe what it will be like when Alex Salmond takes first minister's questions at Holyrood on Thursday.

Come on, someone must want to lead Labour | Kevin McKenna 2011

That's if he can find an irritatingly couthy Scots phrase to crowbar into his soundbite, of course ...

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

I spier'd for my cousin fu 'couthy and sweet, [asked, kindly]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

There is something warm and hospitable -- if he knew the language well enough he would call it couthy -- in the greeting that he gets from the shepherd on the moor, and the conversation that he holds with the farmer's wife in the stone cottage, where he stops to ask for a drink of milk and a bit of oat-cake.

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

It is a long walk through the snow, but there is a kindly, couthy smell from the woods, and at sight of the squares of light in his home, weariness departs from a Drumtochty man.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be."

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be."

A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2 Ian Maclaren 1878

We had tender words also, that still bring the tears to my eyes, and chief among them was "couthy."

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be."

A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878

Drumtochty hes an idea o 'itsel', and peety the man 'at tries tae drive them, but they' re couthy.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878