Citations:trokins

Scots citations of trokins

Noun: "dealings, association"

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1912 1921 1983

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• 1896 — Peter Hunter, James Inwick: Ploughman and Elder, Harper & Brothers Publishers (1896), page 146:

  […] I hae heard a sough aboot your trokins wi' Pringle, Jims."

• 1898 — John Buchan, John Burnet of Barns, John Lane (1898), page 343:

  […] Ye maun ken that for lang we've had a bluid-feud wi' that clan, for the Baillies are aye gentrice and hae nae trokins wi' sic blaggard tinklers. […]

• 1912 — George Alexander Gibson, Life of Sir William Tennant Gairdner, Maclehose (1912), page 318:

  "Ye had trokins wi' him, aiblins, at the Market?"

• 1921 — Dogs, Birds & Others: Natural History Letters from "The Spectator" (ed. H. J. Massingham), T. Fisher Unwin Ltd (1921), page 59:

  […] Bitterly mortified, the dog fled from the kirk, and ever afterwards, as his master said, ' had nae trokins wi' releegion.' "

• 1983 — William L. Lorimer, The New Testament in Scots, Canongate Books (2001), →ISBN, page 164:

  The wuman answert, "What! A Jew like ye seekin a drink o a Samâritan like mysel?" The Jews hes nae trokins wi the Samâritans.