siller
Americannoun
noun
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silver
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money
adjective
Etymology
Origin of siller
a Scot variant of silver
Example Sentences
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"Nae doubt," said the other, and added, "Ay, but it's grand to hae the wee bit siller in your hand when ye gang an errand."
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
She has garred build a bonny ship; It's a' covered o'er wi' pearl; And at every needle-tack was in't There hung a siller bell.
From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
When it had finished its song, he said: "Sing that song again, my bonnie bird, and I'll give thee a' this siller in a bag."
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
Then she laughed and said: "When I am Lady Wynton, I may find many other ways for the spending of that hundred thousand of lying siller."
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
"My love gae me a siller wand, 'Twas to rule ower a' Scotland;10 And she gae me a gay gowd ring, The virtue o't was above a' thing."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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