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And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

I personally examined the soup, and found it to be "nae skinking ware that jaups in luggies."

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

He came in my road when I was sweeping out the close, and some o' the dirty jaups splashed about his shins.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas