eeksie-peeksie

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Scots

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Adjective

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eeksie-peeksie (comparative mair eeksie-peeksie, superlative maist eeksie-peeksie)

  1. equal
    • 1868, William Duncan Latto, Tammas Bodkin: or the Humours of a Scottish tailor:
      On recoverin' consciousness, my first glower was direckit towards the elders' bucht, an' there I beheld my faither an' his brethren o' the eldership, rakin' at their eeholes, whilk was as muckle as to say, that we were a' eeksie-peeksie for ance.
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