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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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FILES, adv. Also fyles and dim. filies, fyllies (ne.Sc. 1951). n.Sc. form of Whiles, sometimes. See P.L.D. § 134.Bnff. 1847 A. Cumming Tales 72:
Even in Prosperity there's trouble, Fyles foreign and domestic feuds.Mry. 1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 340:
Files ye wadna ken the tae en' fae the tither.Abd. 1929 Abd. Weekly Jnl. (28 Feb.) 6:
A canna dee wark for ma feet are that sair fyles wi' the caul'.Abd. 1995 Flora Garry Collected Poems 18:
Fyles ye myurr-myurr to me ma leen,
Yer quaverin myowies thin an smaa, ... Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 5:
The stooks ay uphaund ane anither agin blufferts o storm an the win that blatteret the bare rigs-like a faimly, fyles.