yauld

[ yawd, yawld, yahd, yahld ]

adjective

, Scot. and North England.

1. active; vigorous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yauld¹

First recorded in 1780–90; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

Ay," said the village folk, "we've gotten the auld man back, and dod! he's clean yauld!

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And, with a turn of his lantern, he threw the candle Elsie had left burning upon the floor, trampled it out fiercely, and then, with one hand still on Elsie's wrist and the lantern swinging in the other, strode out, shouting his version of the refrain: "And the fox—the fox—the auld, yauld, bauld fox, is off to his den-O!"

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You get a coble, and a yauld old Celt, its master, and are rowed across to Inchmahome, the Isle of Rest.

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It’s true, she’s as poor’s a sang-maker and as hard’s a kirk, and tipper-taipers when she taks the gate, first like a lady’s gentlewoman in a minuwae, or a hen on a het girdle; but she’s a yauld, poutherie Girran for a’ that, and has a stomack like Willie Stalker’s meere that wad hae disgeested tumbler-wheels, for she’ll whip me aff her five stimparts o’ the best aits at a down-sittin and ne’er fash her thumb.

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YALD, YAULD, adj. sprightly; alert.

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