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- noun Plural form of
maukin .
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Examples
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Dear! thae English churls think as muckle about a blade of wheat or grass, as a Scotch laird does about his maukins and his muir-poots.
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--- Dear! thae English churls think as muckle about a blade of wheat or grass, as a Scotch laird does about his maukins and his muir-poots.
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Scotch laird does about his maukins and his muir-poots.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Mony a witch, de'il, and bogle, however, did my grannie see and hear tell of, that used to scud and scamper hereaway langsyne like maukins. "
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Mony a witch, de'il, and bogle, however, did my grannie see and hear tell of, that used to scud and scamper hereaway langsyne like maukins. "
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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