towmond

[ toh-muhnd ]

noun

, Scot.

1. twelvemonth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of towmond¹

1425–75; late Middle English ( Scots ) towlmonyth < Old Norse tōlfmānathr twelvemonth

Example Sentences

O thou grim, mischief-making chiel, That gars the notes o' discord squeel, 'Till humankind aft dance a reel In gore a shoe-thick;— Gie a' the faes o' Scotland's weal A towmond's toothache!

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A towmond o' trouble, should that be my fa', A night o' gude fellowship sowthers it a'; When at the blythe end o' our journey at last, Wha the deil ever thinks o' the road he has past?

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A towmond o’ trouble, should that be my fa’, A night o’ guid fellowship sowthers it a’: When at the blithe end o’ our journey at last, Wha the deil ever thinks o’ the road he has past?

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Gie’ a’ the faes o’ Scotland’s weal A towmond’s Toothache.

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But now the supper crowns their simple board, The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia’s food: The soupe their only hawkie does afford, That ‘yont the hallan snugly chows her cood: The dame brings forth in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain’d kebbuck, fell, An’ aft he’s prest, an’ aft he ca’s it guid; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, How ’twas a towmond auld, sin’ lint was i’ the bell.

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