spring-bottomed

Updated: May 5, 2025

And S th was clearly getting drunk too. "Why, you don't see where they hit," said S th drawlingly. "Somewhere about the pineal; and therefore we say impudence is moral, sometimes immoral, as just now when you damned me. No more of your old junk, I say, sitting here in my cathedra, which by the way is spring-bottomed, which may account for my moral elasticity that a highwayman is a coward."

- Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII