giftie
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See also: gifty
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[edit]Noun
[edit]giftie (plural gifties)
- A gift.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […] (in English), London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 5:
- Of these four things, the first is your legal due: the little pickle money for your father's books and plenishing, which I have bought (as I have explained from the first) in the design of re-selling at a profit to the incoming dominie. The other three are gifties that Mrs. Campbell and myself would be blithe of your acceptance.