goniel

Updated: May 8, 2025

But my mother, who had none o' the simpleness that came by my faither's side o' the house, was then living; and when Jenny and I were on the eve o' being publicly cried in the kirk, she clapped her affidavit against it. "'Nicol, said she, 'son as ye are o' mine, ye're a poor simple goniel. There isna a bairn that I have among ye to mend another.

- Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17