Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gift or faculty.
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Examples
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I feel that I do a lot of things that are kind of "giftie" anyway.
Worrying About Money 2008
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Thus for the first, and perhaps only time in my life, I enjoyed the "giftie" of seeing myself as others see me.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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Thank you and what a lovely giftie to start off our New Year with this short but oh so hot tidbit from the next installment ....
Teaser: Indigo's Book Nalini Singh 2009
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Oh well, perhaps some day the other will arrive, too, and make a nice giftie for someone.
Be Mine... katelnorth 2008
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Yes, I am making a little heart giftie for my husband to give another woman.
Truly, I am awesome kittenpie 2008
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"Come to think of it, I've a wee giftie for ye, myself, Sassenach," he said, smoothing my hair.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Yes, I am making a little heart giftie for my husband to give another woman.
Archive 2008-02-01 kittenpie 2008
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So I leeves a giftie here — a magiklol bicycle repair kit, that allows teh piggeh to repair any and evvery pawsible prolblem wif byciklols.
FRIENDS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Another little giftie in the package robs the taxpayers to feed the large pharmaceutical companies.
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O wad some Power that giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us!
hernesheir commented on the word giftie
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!
- Robert Burns, To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet At Church - 1786
April 14, 2011