glimmery

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He's taen a whip into his hand, And lashed them wondrous sair; "Gae to your bowers, ye vile limmers; Ye'se never see them mair."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

He wad threip upo' me 'at I was ane o' thae lang tongued limmers 'at maks themsel's h'ard frae ae toon's en' to the tither!

From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George

Soon we came to a link of the path by the water-side, at a place that is called the Tinklers' Loup, where these sorners and limmers were mostly wont to congregate.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

I daur ye, limmers that ye are, to name sic a word at my door-cheek!

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Na, na; it's ma duty as yer dad to keep ye from sic limmers."

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred