geyanadv.
/ˈɡeɪən/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪən/, Scottish English /ˈɡaɪən/, /ˈɡeən/ Scottish.
Tolerably; considerably.
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1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 755 Music's a subject I could get ga'en tiresome upon.
1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 299 We two are geyan young yet.
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adv.1825- etc on the back foot
- etc on the bad side of a person
- etc on the defensive
- etc on the good side of a person
- etc on the heartstrings
- etc on the offensive
- etc on the parish
- etc on the raw
- etc on the right side of someone
- etc on the run
- etc on the wrong side of a person
- etc on to see
- etc on to something by one's fingernails
- etc on to something by one's fingertips
- etc on which side one's bread is buttered
- etc one another
- etc one's blue
- etc one's breath to cool one'one's own porridge
- etc one's breath to cool one's porridge
- etc one's cabbage twice
- etc one's cookies
- etc one's daylights out
- etc one's eyeball on
- etc one's eyes out
- etc one's fair share