pliskie

Pottie Lawson, Bandy Wobster, an 'Sandy have juist been thick an' three faud sin the Hielant games toornament, an 'I kent fine there was some pliskie brooin' amon 'them.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Or how severe my pliskie, O! I swear I 'm sairer drunk wi' love

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

I howp some o 'thae Lichtin' Commitee chappies 'ill get a dook amon' the gutters the nicht for this pliskie o 'theirs.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Or how severe my pliskie, O! I swear I'm sairer drunk wi 'love

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

Certainly if I wad hae wared my life for you yon night, I can hae nae reason to play an ill pliskie t'ye in the day o 'your distress.' '

The Antiquary 1845

James Batter, the pattern of steadiness and sobriety, awoke in a terrible pliskie.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

James Batter, the pattern of steadiness and sobriety, awoke in a terrible pliskie.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

“Weel, sirs!” said Mrs. Lightbody, “wha wad hae thought o’ Caleb Balderstone playing an auld acquaintance sic a pliskie!”

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

"Ye 'ill better clear yersel at ony rate, Hillocks, for some o' the neeburs threep (insist) 'at it wes you, and some that it wes yir freend, an' there's ithers declare ye ran in compt (company) like twa dogs worrying sheep; it wes a bonnie like pliskie (escapade) onywy, and hardly fit for an Auld Kirk elder" -- a sally much enjoyed by the audience, who knew that, after Whinnie, Hillocks was the doucest man in Drumtochty.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

As for Cursecowl, the invincible reprobate, so ashamed was he of his infamous conduct, that he did not dare, for the life in his body, to show himself before my shop-window -- far less in my presence -- for more than a week; yet, would ye believe it! he made a perfect farce of the whole business among his own wauf cronies; and, instead of repentance, I verily believe, would not have cared twopence to have played me the same pliskie that he did my douce and worthy friend.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824