Peerie

Verlyn Klinkenborg is a poet with a subject today that transcends our peerie focus on little crimes and their criminals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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At which I broke through my rule never to lift my fist to the bairn, and gave him such a yerk in the cheek with the loof of my hand, as made, I am sure, his lugs ring, and sent him dozing to the door like a peerie. ❋ Various (1909)

An 'dee wi' futh of meat and drink [Excess] 'It's weel enough a peerie while ❋ Unknown (1898)

If I see the sons and daughters of my friends grown old, I also see the grandchildren spinning the peerie and hunkering at ❋ Unknown (1898)

Yea, yea! puir Tammy and his pate-keschie does mair for ill-luckit, wandering sea-folk than does the muckle kirk and the peerie [3] queen pit together. ❋ Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (1891)

We got on fine a while, till Airchie broke my peerie an 'pooched the string. ❋ Unknown (1887)

I saw Magneezhy clap his hand to his brow, wheel round like a peerie, or a sheep seized with the sturdie, and then play flap down on his broadside, breaking the necks of half-a-dozen cabbage-stocks -- three of which were afterwards clean lost, as we could not put them all into the pot at one time. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

Dog on it, it was more than I could thole, and I saw that his mother had spoiled him; so, though I aye liked to give him wholesome reproof rather than lift my fist, I broke through this rule in a couple of hurries, and gave him such a yerk in the cheek with the loof of my hand, as made, I am sure, his lugs ring, and sent him dozing to the door like a peerie. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

"It's clear she hasna steeked an e'e a 'nicht, and me sleepin' like a peerie. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

She will twist that Tam Gallaberry round her finger and then -- whizz -- she will make him spin like a peerie! " ❋ Unknown (1887)