Waught

"So gies a haund my trusty fiere/ and here's a haund o' thine;/ And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught/ For auld lang syne." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'd known that auld lang syne meant something like "old time's sake" and that a right guid-willie waught was probably a decent measure of whisky, but I'd never stopped at fiere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now there are many things I will take for the Co-operative Movement, but a right good willi-waught is not one of them! ❋ Kerron Cross (2005)

When we came to 'Here's a hand, my trusty frere' we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would 'take a right gude willie waught,' and hadn't the least idea what it meant, we were really affected. ❋ James T. Lightwood (N/A)

Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_ ❋ Various (N/A)

And we'll tak a right guid [230-17] willie-waught [230-18] ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

” When we came to “Here’s a hand, my trusty frere, ” we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would “take a right gude willie-waught, ” and hadn’t the least idea what it meant, we were really affected. ❋ Unknown (1917)

"Ye'll hae a waught wi 'me afore ye gang, John," he said clumsily, "for th 'morns we've paddl' 't thegither i 'th' Nith." ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught, [draught of good will] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

"Ye'll hae a waught wi 'me afore ye gang, John," he said clumsily, ❋ Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 (1899)

And if ye ken ony puir body o 'our acquaintance that's blate for want o' siller, and has far to gang hame, ye needna stick to gie them a waught o 'drink and a bannock -- we'll ne'er miss't, and it looks creditable in a house like ours. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

And if ye ken ony puir body o’ our acquaintance that’s blate for want o’ siller, and has far to gang hame, ye needna stick to gie them a waught o’ drink and a bannock — we’ll ne’er miss’t, and it looks creditable in a house like ours. ❋ Unknown (2004)