bow-kail

Updated: May 1, 2025

I ne'er, for my part, saw a son sac like a dad, sin' my een first opened." With that he went away, saying with an ill-natured wince: "You made to honour and me to dishonour! Dirty bow-kail thing that thou be'st!" "I will have the old rascal on the hip for this, if I live," thought I. So I went and asked my mother if John was a righteous man.

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner