gawsie

Her strappin 'limb an' gawsie middle [buxom] (He reach'd nae higher)

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

Gentle Geordie Robertson put my ilka-day's claise on his ain bonny sell yestreen, and gaed a 'through the town wi' them; and gawsie and grand he lookit, like ony queen in the land. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

Cumberland, whilk is ane pint, as they ca’t, of yill, whilk is a dribble in comparison of our gawsie Scots pint, and hardly a mutchkin, boiled wi’ sope and hartshorn draps, and toomed doun the creature’s throat wi’ ane whorn.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Geordie Robertson put my ilka-day's claise on his ain bonny sell yestreen, and gaed a 'through the town wi' them; and gawsie and grand he lookit, like ony queen in the land. "

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

A postscript bore, "I learned from a decent woman, a grazier's widow, that they hae a cure for the muir-ill in Cumberland, whilk is ane pint, as they ca't, of yill, whilk is a dribble in comparison of our gawsie

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Geordie Robertson put my ilka-day's claise on his ain bonny sell yestreen, and gaed a 'through the town wi' them; and gawsie and grand he lookit, like ony queen in the land. "

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801