peenging

If Hiltz were bewailing the fact that the Canadian government is somehow preventing the myriad of good works that the Anglican Church of Canada is eager to perform if only the right-wing government of Stephen Harper would allow it to, his peenging might make at least a modicum of sense.

The Anglican Church of Canada: a political special interest group « Anglican Samizdat 2010

“God and Mary with you,” Doyler said in a peenging voice.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

“God and Mary with you,” Doyler said in a peenging voice.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

And then some of the company at Gilsland tells her that the estate was to be sell’d; and ye wad hae thought she had taen an ill will at Miss Lucy Bertram frae that moment, for mony a time she cried to me, “O Becky, if that useless peenging thing o’ a lessie there at Ellangowan, that canna keep her ne’er-do-weel father within bounds—if she had been but a led-bairn, they couldna hae sell’d the auld inheritance for that fool-body’s debts!

Chapter XXXIX 1917

And then some of the company at Gilsland tells her that the estate was to be sell'd; and ye wad hae thought she had taen an ill will at Miss Lucy Bertram frae that moment, for mony a time she cried to me, "O Becky, O Becky, if that useless peenging thing o 'a lassie there at Ellangowan, that canna keep her ne'er-do-weel father within bounds -- if she had been but a lad-bairn they couldna hae sell'd the auld inheritance for that fool-body's debts"; and she would rin on that way till I was just wearied and sick to hear her ban the puir lassie, as if she wadna hae been a lad-bairn and keepit the land if it had been in her will to change her sect.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

And then some of the company at Gilsland tells her that the estate was to be sell'd; and ye wad hae thought she had taen an ill will at Miss Lucy Bertram frae that moment, for mony a time she cried to me, "O Becky, O Becky, if that useless peenging thing o 'a lassie there at Ellangowan, that canna keep her ne'er-do-weel father within bounds -- if she had been but a lad-bairn they couldna hae sell'd the auld inheritance for that fool-body's debts"; and she would rin on that way till I was just wearied and sick to hear her ban the puir lassie, as if she wadna hae been a lad-bairn and keepit the land if it had been in her will to change her sect.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

And then some of the company at Gilsland tells her that the estate was to be sell'd; and ye wad hae thought she had taen an ill will at Miss Lucy Bertram frae that moment, for mony a time she cried to me, "O Becky, O Becky, if that useless peenging thing o 'a lassie there at Ellangowan, that canna keep her ne'er-do-weel father within bounds -- if she had been but a lad-bairn they couldna hae sell'd the auld inheritance for that fool-body's debts"; and she would rin on that way till I was just wearied and sick to hear her ban the puir lassie, as if she wadna hae been a lad-bairn and keepit the land if it had been in her will to change her sect.

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

O Becky, if that useless peenging thing o’ a lassie there at

Guy Mannering 1815