Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scorch; fire hastily on a gridiron.
- noun A hasty toasting; a slight scorching.
- noun A flying shower.
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Examples
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` ` Aweel, aweel, 'said Hobbie, mounting his horse, ` ` it serves naething to strive wi cripples --- they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell ye ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther, if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes. ''
The Black Dwarf 1898
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"'Aweel, aweel,' said Hobbie, mounting his horse, 'it serves naething to strive wi' cripples, -- they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell you ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi 'Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar barrel in the five parishes.'"
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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I’se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes.”
The Black Dwarf 2004
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Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes. "
The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801
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