scallagn.
A predial bondsman in the Hebrides.
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villein regardant1443
helot1579
regardant1646
scallagc1700
borderer1771
bordar1776
mainmortable1779
native (or villein) of stock1828
Penest1835
adscript1837
c1700 J. Fraser Chron. Frasers (1905) 84 The very place named Bearn ni Scallag, that is, the Servants Gap, becaus the men who did the slaughter were servants and scallags.
1793 J. L. Buchanan Trav. W. Hebrides Introd. 6 The scallag, whether male or female, is a poor being, who, for mere subsistence, becomes a predial slave to another.
1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. II. 549 The state of our negroes is paradise compared with that of the scallag.
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n.c1700- make a good face
- make a good fist
- make a good job of
- make a good landfall
- make a good penny of, by, from
- make a good show
- make a good thing of
- make a good thing out of
- make a good, etc, go of
- make a good, poor, etc, showing
- make a grand slam
- make a great face
- make a grimace or grimaces
- make a hack in the post
- make a haggis of
- make a hames of
- make a hand
- make a hand of
- make a hand on
- make a hand with
- make a hands
- make a hard mouth
- make a hard mouths
- make a hard shift
- make a hare of