glomin

Updated: May 24, 2025

He was for a' the world like a wee man in kilts. Weel, it turned out in this manner, as ye shall hear. Ae afternoon towards the glomin' I was oblegated to tak' a stap doun to the cross, wi' a web under my arm, which I had finished for Mr. Weft, the muslin manufacturer.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827