Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dialectal corruptions of inion, a variant of
onion .
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Examples
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As they ran one by one past the Master, calling to each other to “Come and see the auld tower blaw up in the lift like the peelings of an ingan,” he could not but feel himself moved with indignation.
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Spanish colonel, whom I could have blown away like the peeling of an ingan, and chiefly because I could not find the thing was required of me by any of the articles of war; neither was
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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Master, calling to each other to "Come and see the auld tower blaw up in the lift like the peelings of an ingan," he could not but feel himself moved with indignation.
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801
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a wooden stump and a brass virl, or to have his head blown off his shoulders, mast high, like ingan peelings, with some exploding earthquake of combustible gunpowder.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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a wooden stump and a brass virl, or to have his head blown off his shoulders, mast high, like ingan peelings, with some exploding earthquake of combustible gunpowder.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
bilby commented on the word ingan
Scots - onion.
December 22, 2007