If you're pasain 'oor wey, look in an' get a crummie. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
Cupar-Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the very circumstance constituting DOCH AN DORROCH, which is a standing drink, for which no reckoning is paid. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
“It was decided in a case before the town bailies of Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott]
Second, I don’t want any of them hung, I want them to do hard time in a crummie prison for years. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Reasoned Debate.] Reference
"'And wha will pay for the wet-nurse?' said I; 'for ye ken I am as dry as a yeld crummie. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII] Reference
Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference
‘You think yourself a wit,’ said my father, with as near an approach to a smile as ever he permits to gild the solemnity of his features; ‘but I reckon you did not eat your dinner standing, like the Jews at their Passover? and it was decided in a case before the town-bailies of Cupar – Angus, when Luckie Simpson’s cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson’s browst of ale while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the very circumstance constituting DOCH. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
The hawket crummie loot down nae milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
I thought it was crummie stood 'twixt you and me. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
"I cared not for crummie, I thought but o 'thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
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