Word of the Day: NEBSIE


ETYMOLOGY
from neb (the beak or bill of a bird) + -sie -sy


EXAMPLE
“…“I’ll tell you aboot Mark,: he said next time; ‘we’ll no be disturbed again till the men want their forenoon – that’s the drop whisky, you ken. Simon’s wife’s a nebsy clatterin’ body, but for a’ that, I wish ehre were mair like her…”

From: The Red Scaur
A Novel of Manners
By P. Anderson Graham, 1896

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