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Examples
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And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies!
The Brigs of Ayr 1909
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He came in my road when I was sweeping out the close, and some o 'the dirty jaups splashed about his shins.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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"Gien your lordship's hed hed as mony blasts o 'nicht win', an 'as mony jaups o' cauld sea watter aboot its lugs as oors, it wad hae been fit to stan 'as muckle o' the barley bree as the stievest o 'the lot, I s' warran '."
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies.
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(skinkin ware = watery soup) (jaups = slops about, luggies = two-handled continental bowls)
a Brit different 2009
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