Scottish Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Scottish


Low as horse’s hoof.	1
It’s as true as Biglam’s cat crew, and the cock rock’d the cradle.	2
Her browe was like the mountain snae Gilt by the morning beam.	3
Her cheeks like living roses glow.	4
Fades awa’ like morning dew.	5
Her hair was like the threads of gold.	6
Shimmered like the sun.	7
Sweete as the infant spring.	8
As cheeky as a young bantam cock.	9
As clean as a leek.	10
As dark as a Yule midnight.	11
As deaf as Ailsa Craig.	12
As deep as Pedwell.	13
As dejected as a wet hen.	14
As dumb as a dead cuddy.	15
As false as Waghorn, and he was nineteen times falser than the deil.	16
As fat as a distillery pig.	17
As fat as a Miller’s horse.	18
As fierce as the Pentland Firth.	19
As fu’ as a biled wulk.	20
As fu’ as a piper.	21
As fu’ as the Baltic.	22
As glum as a man who has found a penny and lost a sixpence.	23
As greedy as ten cocks scraping in a dunghill for ae barley pickle.	24
As happy as the day is lang.	25
As high as Gilderoy.	26
As merry as the maltman.	27
As plump as a miller’s sparrow.	28
As proud as a Highlander.	29
As quiet as a settin’ hen.	30
As ragged and dirty as a Leith carter’s pony.	31