understud

Updated: May 26, 2025

So, 'To the right, Dobbin, my canny fellow, said I to my nag and it was as wise an animal as ever man had to speak to; it knawed every word I said, and understud me whether I was drunk or sober, mony a time, when ne'er a one else could make out what I said. But the poor beast had had sae meikle experience wi' me, that it knawed what I meant by a wink as weel as a nod.

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