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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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THONDER, adv. Also thonner (Uls. 1886 W. G. Lyttle Sons of the Sod xxix.; ne. and wm. Sc. 1971). Over there, at some distance, yonder (Per., Fif. (thonder), Bwk. (thonner) 1889 Ellis E.E.P. V. 726, 752–3, Uls. 1953 Traynor). Gen. (exc. I.) Sc. Also in Eng. dial. [′ðon(d)ər. See D, letter, 2.]Sc. 1879 Stevenson Deacon Brodie i. i. 4:
Hullo! it's a man. Thonder in the chair.Fif. 1895 S. Tytler Kincaid's Widow xiii.:
To steal out and see what is lying thonder.Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.:
The ice grudged up the Jed at the cauld, thonder.Sc. 1943 D. Young Auntran Blads 20:
Thonder they ligg on the grund o the sea.ne.Sc. 1979 Alexander Scott in Joy Hendry Chapman 23-4 (1985) 70:
Here wi a heidache, I
- and outbye thonder,
the warld that aches
aa owre. m.Sc. 1991 William Neill in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 50:
Yon dollybird wi the velvet single-en an the hoor's een
puffin et yon lang fag an straikin her lover-boy's pow,
cannae be smokin the same brand as oor Wullie thare,
hoastin his lichts oot thonner in the Royal Infirmary. Arg. 1992:
Aboot the cove, jeest aboot the cove or the big rock thonner.