Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Refuse; riffraff; rabble. Also
scaff and raff .
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Examples
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I had maist forgottent, said the hardy Borderer; but I think this morning, now that I am fresh and sober, if you and I were at the Withershins Latch, wi ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o yon scaff-raff.
Chapter XXV 1917
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'I had maist forgotten't,' said the hardy Borderer; 'but I think this morning, now that I am fresh and sober, if you and I were at the Withershins' Latch, wi 'ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o' yon scaff-raff. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'I had maist forgotten't,' said the hardy Borderer; 'but I think this morning, now that I am fresh and sober, if you and I were at the Withershins' Latch, wi 'ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o' yon scaff-raff. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Withershins 'Latch, wi' ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o 'yon scaff-raff.'
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I were at the Withershins’ Latch, wi’ ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o’ yon scaff-raff.’
Guy Mannering 1815
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