“I’ve seen the day ye butter’t my brose,
An’ cuddlet me late an’ early.”
Old Song—The Deuk’s dang owre wi’ my Daidie.
Corbie, S, the carrion crow.
“It’s kittle shootin’ at corbies or clergy.”—Proverb.
Crack, S and C, converse; also boast.
“They crack’t away like bourtree guns.”
Mark Lonsdale. The Upshot.
“Keep out o’ his company that cracks o’ his cheatrie.”
Proverb.