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Examples
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We have absolute prood that the Neo-Cons are desperate today.
Think Progress » Kristol To Congress: ‘Do Nothing’ On Iraq 2007
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But here I am, richt amang the gentlemen an 'ladies, travellin' alang like the Queen hersel 'micht be prood to dae.
Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth
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Provost's house in Hawick, 'mak him "kiss the woodie"; let the prood
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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He's a gey prood mannie too, mind ye, although he winna haud wi't.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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An 'a prood man he was o' his ancestry sax hunnerd years lang syne.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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He's a prood bit stockie, Sandy, mind ye, when there's naebody lookin '.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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Ma dear sir, it's prood an 'happy we wad be to hae ye come to see us.
Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth
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"We're prood to see you, and hoo are they a 'in France?"
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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A'm a prood man, Hector McKaye; a'll nae take a grrand eeducashun at sic a price.
Kindred of the Dust 1918
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Some o 'the neeighbors' ll be sayin 'ye're a' that prood, but ah've always stood up for the Gordons, an 'said ye were nae mair prood than ye ocht to be.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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