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comparative straichter · superlative straichtest
- ScotlandStraight.
1827, Noctes Ambrosianæ, No. XXXII, Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 21, page 481, As Leddy Macbeth! Her gran' high straicht-nosed face, whiter than ashes!
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"[…]A'll gang the straicht wye doon i' the lichts. A'll be a' richt.”
2010, Jean Duthie, Out of the Farlans, page 126
comparative straichter · superlative straichtest
- ScotlandStraight.
"Rin, rin, straicht on," shouted the manikin, and the men with a great clatter obeyed him.
1881, Charles Gibbon, The Braes of Yarrow, page 1411 more example
Willie Simpson whispered to him — "Fan ye run, go straicht till ma hoose. There's a bottle o' the best Glenlivet an' anither o' port wine waitin' us for a 'burst' efter 'e fun's by."
1896, John Horne, A Canny Countryside, page 131
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