Guid Man

See also: guidman

Scots

Proper noun

The Guid Man

1. God (general in children's language)
   • 1839, William McDowall, Poems:

     Who gave them food, and calmed their souls with prayer; 'Twas the good man, the lisping infant cries.

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   • 1870, James Nicholson, Idylls o' Hame:

     Nae doot it was the Good Man wha made the flowerets wee.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae:

     Pale, delicate, bob-haired Peggy Robertson, . . . when she had died, had, his mother explained, “gone to the Gude Man.”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “Guid Man” under “guid, adj., adv., n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 11 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.