pawkie

And then in truth the worthy magistrate waxed somewhat wroth; at first accusing Mr. Comyn of being credulously duped by some pawkie servant who owed him a grudge, and ending by setting him down as "clean daft, doited, and dazed by too mickle study," (and in his ire he had very nearly added, "too much toddy.")

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

When the kye comes hame, &c. See yonder pawkie shepherd,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

But I dinna find the maps bearing out these pawkie chaps,

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

He was "a pawkie lad" in Peter's estimation -- "nae just fair forth the gait in his dealings with his brother, and even waur (worse) with his old blind father, to whom he should have thought shame to tell lees in that graceless way."

Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not 1859

Some of the pawkie among them used indeed to say, in answer to the godly of Kilmarnock, and other admirers of the late great John Russel, of that formerly orthodox town, by whom Dr. Pringle's powers as a preacher were held in no particular estimation, -- "He kens our pu'pit's frail, and spar'st to save outlay to the heritors."

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

I e'en had it in my heart to be a thief, a wicked, pawkie thief. "

Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success Horatio Alger 1865

[This laborious and useful wag was the "Dear Smith, thou sleest pawkie thief," of one of the poet's finest epistles: he died in the West

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777