kailyard

Scott's dialect, although true to nature, is not difficult, as he did not consider it necessary to give all the colloquial terms, like the modern "kailyard" writers.

Modern English Books of Power George Hamlin Fitch 1888

The first is the venom of many Scots towards the English, expressed casually in everyday conversation; second is the parochial 'kailyard' nature of much reporting by the Scottish media; and the third is the obsession with the past - the Scots obsession with the perceived injustices of the past is downright scary.

Army Rumour Service 2009

Besides the lovely little ornamental garden, the manor had a small herb garden and an immense kitchen garden or kailyard that supplied turnips, cabbages, and vegetable marrows.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

I knew there was a barn and a shed for silage; these must be to the other side of the house, with the farm's granary and the henyard, kailyard, and disused chapel.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

The big white-harled farmhouse sat serenely in the middle of pale green fields of oats and barley, its windows and chimneys edged in gray stone, the walled kailyard and the numerous outbuildings clustering around it like chicks round a big white hen.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

And so, with the assistance of Jenny, ten pails of milk from the dairy shed, three chickens caught from the coop, and four dozen large leeks from the kailyard, I presided over the preparation of cock-a-leekie soup and roasted potatoes for the laird and tenants of Lallybroch.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

In spite of this Mr. Morris did not seem exactly comfortable, especially as Mr. Campbell expressed his intention of accompanying him to the next highway, telling him that he would be as safe in his company as in his father's kailyard.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Work in your field or kailyard all the shining day,

Country Sentiment Robert Graves 1940

Number One Ward, however, was quite empty except for my friend, Private McPhee, stalking majestically up and down as if on sentry go, wearing a "fit of the blues" several sizes too large for him and an expression which would, I believe, be described by kailyard novelists as "dour."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 Various 1898

In his preface he expresses the regret at not having the gifts (whatever they may be) of the kailyard school, or -- looking up to a very different plane -- the genius of Mr. Barrie.

Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890