scoug

present singular third person scougs · participle present scouging · participle past scouged · past scouged

1. alternativeAlternative form of scug.

   Like thee they scoug frae street or field, An' hap them in a lyther bield; […]

   1773, Robert Fergusson, Poems on Various Subjects, page 139

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   Often and earnestly I was pressed, "if I were dry, never to think of tasting the lech water, which was not good, but to come up and get a drink;" or "if I was cauld, to come up and get a warm;" or, "if it were a rainy day, to come up and scoug a while."

   1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, page 338

   Ye'll scoug it whan it's weet, and ye'll tak a cairt an' gang an' veesit your frien's ony day ye please.

   1896, Peter Hay Hunter, James Inwick, page 3

   Our souter, he has hives o' bees / A'ranged on creepies in a raw, / Weel scouged wi' shrubs and apple trees / Frae ony blast the wind can blaw.

   1898, Charles Spence, From the Braes of the Carse: Poems and Songs, page 29