Thrang

Word THRANG
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Definitions and meanings of "Thrang"

What do we mean by thrang?

(Scotlang) busy, preoccupied

Crowded, busy

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The word "thrang" in example sentences

He said Mrs. Linton was "thrang," and the master was not in. ❋ Unknown (1847)

It will be hard for you to fill her place, especially on sic a thrang day as this; but ❋ Unknown (2004)

So when he heard him say so he thrang here and there, and so with great pain he gat out of the press, and there he met with his dwarf. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Launcelot thrang in the thick of the press; and as they were unarmed he smote them and wist not whom that he smote, and so unhappily they were slain. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When Sir Launcelot saw his party go to the worst he thrang into the thickest press with a sword in his hand; and there he smote down on the right hand and on the left hand, and pulled down knights and raced off their helms, that all men had wonder that ever one knight might do such deeds of arms. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Launcelot thrang here and there, it mishapped him to slay Gaheris and Sir Gareth, the noble knight, for they were unarmed and unware. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He said Mrs. Linton was “thrang,” and the master was not in. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Come on noo an hear him - he'll be ower thrang tae bide. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"A thochtless body's aye thrang," said the Gairner's wife, as Mysie began to tak 'doon what she'd wrocht. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

It fell on a morning when we were thrang, vol. i, 146. ❋ Various (N/A)

Margaret would be thrang with her white hands in a measure of grain, and I would be hearing her speaking to the chanticleer. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

McKinnon thrang with the dealers, and Mirren not far off still sonsy -- when we passed there I saw that Margaret was all trembling; and when we saw Bryde, tall and swarthy, coming to us, I saw the smiling in her eyes and her face aglow. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

And that was the great diversion for them; but when Margaret went to her this time she was thrang at the building of her stack of peat, and there was with her a younger woman, and Mhari nic Cloidh was not in good wind, for the first of her words came to us: "A traill," says she to her helper. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

It would be well on into May, for the men were thrang with work, and the lassies at the big house haining a bit of bannock to be putting under their pillows for fear of hearing the cuckoo, when first I heard the strange whistling. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

Hugh and he often thrang at the talking, and on the hill together and among the crops, in all that time till the wedding of Hugh, never did I hear that Helen Stockdale had speech with Bryde McBride. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

You would be seeing Ronald McKinnon and Mirren, sitting in the circle round the fire, thrang at the knitting -- both man and wife -- kemping as they called it: that is, each would tie a knot in the worsted and make a race of it, who would be finished first. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

When I was come to the stable door, there was old Tam, thrang with his bottles of straw for the horses 'last bite (a thing to bring a man to himself it is to listen to horse beasts riving at straw and crunching into turnips), but Tam laid down his bundle and came close to me. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

When I put my head into the room again, Mhari nic Cloidh was thrang at the talking in a droll sing-song voice, and this was the air of it -- ❋ John Sillars (N/A)

No, I ken ye're no meanin 'to, but you men are that thrang -- ❋ Eugene O'Neill (1920)

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