dithers

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Come the Grants o' Tullochgorum, Wi' their pipers on afore 'em; Proud the mithers are that bore 'em, Fee fuddle, fau fum.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

"The buffalo bull had a good deal to do with our impolite tarryin', and as he is slaapin' with his four mithers, I maan his forefathers, let him rist in pace."

From The Hunters of the Ozark by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

I thocht o’ saying that some builds their house upon the sand, but—dagont, dominie, it’s a solemn thing the pride mithers has in their laddies.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Wives and mithers, maist despairin', Ca' them lives o' men.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

For noo's the time whan pows are seen Nid-noddin' like a mandareen; When tenty mithers stap a preen In sleepin' weans; An' nearly half the parochine Forget their pains.

From A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Stevenson, Robert Louis