And first they ate the white puddings, 25 And syne they ate the black: Muckle thought the gudewife to hersell, Yet ne'er a word she spak.
It fell about the Martinmas time, And a gay time it was than, That our gudewifehad puddings to mak, And she boil'd them in the pan.
A Scottish minister had been persuaded by the laird to keep a pig, and the gudewife had been duly instructed in the mysteries of black puddings, pork chops, and pig's head.
The gudewife of the inn at Greenlaw had received four clerical guests into her house, a father and three sons.
An answer very much resembling this, and as much to the point, was that of a gudewife on Deeside, whose daughter had just been married and had left her for her new home.
I heard ane o' his gillies bid that auld rudas jaud of a gudewife gie ye that.
With that he drew from his side-pocket a large greasy leather pocket-book, and bade the gudewife lock it up in her kist.
The gudewife was sayin' he wes never the same sin' a weet nicht he lost himsel on the muir and slept below a bush; but that's neither here nor there.
He gaed awa that morning to set our gudewife ower the height, and has never sin' that time lookit near me, the careless rascal!
The gudewife was sayin' he wes never the same sin' a weet nicht he lost himsel' on the muir and slept below a bush; but that's neither here nor there.
Then gudewife count the lawin, The lawin, the lawin; Then gudewife count the lawin, And bring a coggie mair!
Then gudewifecount the lawin; The lawin, the lawin, Then gudewife count the lawin, And bring a coggie mair!
The numbers of the persecuted increased on his hands incalculably--The gudewife of Chapelhope's bannocks vanished by scores, and the unconscionable, insatiable Brownie of Bodsbeck was blamed for the whole.
He's weel eneugh that way--No that very reithe on't; but the gudewife hauds his neb right sair to the grindstane about it.
Before she had gone any distance, she was observed, and the gudewifesped after her, overtook her, and snatched away her prize.
To a stranger who remonstrated with her for the unkindness, the gudewife exclaimed, "Do you think I am to allow my cow to be dried up?
GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR It fell about the Martinmas time, And a gay time it was than, That our gudewife had puddings to mak' And she boil'd them in the pan.
And first they ate the white puddings, And syne they ate the black: Muckle thought the gudewife to hersell, Yet ne'er a word she spak.
They should kiss the gudewife that wad win the gudeman.
It's a sour reek when the gudewife dings the gudeman.
When the gudeman drinks to the gudewife a' wad be weel; when the gudewife drinks to the gudeman a's weel.
But the gudewife aye spiers for my muckle meal pock.
The bauld gudewife began; Wi' that a foursome yell got up-- I to my heels and ran.
They are the first ripe the season, an' noo see what the gudewife will do with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gudewife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
