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Example sentences for "auld wife"

  • To tak her wi' me the first time I gang to a strange hoose, as gin I thocht a'body wad think as muckle o' my auld wife as I do mysel'!

  • What was his dismay to find--not his bonny leddy, but her poor cousin, the soutar's auld wife!

  • Whistle, whistle, auld wife, An' ye'se get a cock.

  • Whistle, whistle, auld wife, An' ye'se get a coo.

  • Whistle, whistle, auld wife, And ye'se get a goun.

  • Ye wad steal the pocks frae an auld wife, and syne speir where she got them.

  • There's a tough sinew in an auld wife's heel.

  • Dool and an ill life soon mak an auld wife.

  • I s' warran' he's no sae rouch wi' a yoong lass as wi' an auld wife.

  • Gien I was to tell ye what I ken o' 'im, ye wad be affrontit afore me, auld wife as I am.

  • If that boy would only hurry up and get through, to make a hame for the lassie and the auld wife!

  • Ah, master, what's that you're saying to my auld wife?

  • Haud out o' my gate, auld wife, and dinna speak o' solemnities to me.

  • Christmas and New Year's tea parties and dances are called "Auld Wife Hakes" in the Furness district of Lancashire.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    auld lang; auld wife; baptized shall; been thinking; certain members; does what; first care; first editions; great moral; make smooth; mental work; not simply; nursing home; officer came; once ordered; other folk; oval shape; popular poetry; protected from; rare thing; stone from; superior intelligence; teaspoon nutmeg