wuddy

Scots

Noun

wuddy (plural wuddies)

1. gallows
   • 1746, Andrew Lang, The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond:

     And the wuddy has her ain, and we twa are left alane, / Free o' Carlisle gaol in the dawing.

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   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:

     "Conscience! if I am na clean bumbaized,—you, ye cheat-the-wuddy rogue, you here on your venture in the tolbooth o' Glasgow? What d' ye think's the value o' your head?"

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   • 1836, John Mackay Wilson, “Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders”, in Dictionary of the Scots Language, volume III, page 69:

     He had nae mair [honour] than ony auld jevel wha ever cheated the wuddy.

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   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert Kerr, My Father's Address to his Auld Dog Laddie:

     I'll sooner see them a' in wuddies, / An' twisted fast / Ere I shall make my puir auld Laddie / Sae draw his last!

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