Word of the Day: GUSSIE

ETYMOLOGY
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EXAMPLE
“...Sym of Lyntoun, be the ramis horn,
Quhen Phebus rang in sing of Capricorn,
And the mone wes past the gussis cro,
Thair fell in France ane jeperdie forlo
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From: Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland
King Berdok
Edited by David Laing, 1822

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