a guid pickle

Scots

Determiner

a guid pickle

  1. quite a few
    • 1871, Charles Gibbon, For Lack of Gold. A Novel, page 121:
      'I hae spent a guid pickle siller on you in educating you like a lady, and I mean you to be one, or you'll bide Annie Blair to the end of the chapter. Now, you ken what I mean, and I expect you to walk according. That's a' I hae to say.'
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    • 1894, W. G. Burn Murdoch, From Edinburgh to the Antartic: An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antartic Expedition of 1892-1893 with a Chapter, page 151:
      […] a guid pickle o' diamond poother ahint them'.
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    • 1925, George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, page 305:
      'Ye hae a guid pickle bawbees in yon kist, David.' 'Nae mair than we'll need when we're auld.'
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