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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nashgab
Literary usage of Nashgab
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... mither, what ye hae dune,' whispered Cuddie; ' there's the Philistines, as yeca' them, are gaun to whirry awa' Mr. Harry, and a' wi' your nashgab. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... are gaun to whirry awa' Mr. Harry, and a' wi' your nashgab, de'il be on't!" ' " Maud ye're tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, " and lay na the ..."
3. Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend (1888)
"Weel, the cards war dealt, the play began, an' it wasna lang till the nashgab of a cretur, Tain Fenwick, wins the haggis. ..."