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whaur

/ hwɔːr /

adverb

  1. a Scot word for where
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The Tap-RoomThis warl's a tap-room owre and owre     Whaur ilk ane tak's his caper Some taste the sweet, some drink the sour     As waiter Fate sees proper; Let mankind live, ae social core,     An drap a' selfish quar'ling, And when the Landlord ca's his score,     May ilk ane's clink be sterling.

"Wi beast, whaur hae ye come frae?—I declare I am that glad to see ye!"

"Eh, sir, yer gun's no loaded is't? for a never would bide in a hoose whaur the wur a loaded gun in a' m'life."

He hurrled it up to the tope of the hell, whaur it's bided ever sence.

Sae little noo I ken, o' yon blessed, bonnie place, I ainly ken its Hame, whaur we shall see His face; It wud surely be eneuch forever mair to be In the glory o' His presence in our ain countree.

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