Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gift or faculty.

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Examples

  • I feel that I do a lot of things that are kind of "giftie" anyway.

    Worrying About Money 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Oh well, perhaps some day the other will arrive, too, and make a nice giftie for someone.

    Be Mine... katelnorth 2008

  • Yes, I am making a little heart giftie for my husband to give another woman.

    Truly, I am awesome kittenpie 2008

  • "Come to think of it, I've a wee giftie for ye, myself, Sassenach," he said, smoothing my hair.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Yes, I am making a little heart giftie for my husband to give another woman.

    Archive 2008-02-01 kittenpie 2008

  • 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

  • Another little giftie in the package robs the taxpayers to feed the large pharmaceutical companies.

    Martha Burk: W's Parting Gifts to Women 2009

  • O wad some Power that giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us!

    Roy M. Pitkin: Happy Birthday, Robert Burns 2009

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  • 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