Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Light-headed; giddy.

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Examples

  • “A wheen cork-headed, barmy-brained gowks! that wunna let puir folk sae muckle as die in quiet, wi’ their sossings and their soopings.”

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • "A wheen cork-headed, barmy-brained gowks! that wunna let puir folk sae muckle as die in quiet, wi 'their sossings and their soopings." [

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

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