Guid Man

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Scots[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

The Guid Man

  1. God (general in children's language)
    • 1839, William McDowall, Poems:
      Who gave them food, and calmed their souls with prayer; 'Twas the good man, the lisping infant cries.
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    • 1870, James Nicholson, Idylls o' Hame:
      Nae doot it was the Good Man wha made the flowerets wee.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae:
      Pale, delicate, bob-haired Peggy Robertson, . . . when she had died, had, his mother explained, “gone to the Gude Man.”
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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