brawlie

brawlie

(ˈbrɔːlɪ)
adv
dialect Scot in a fine or healthy manner
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It opens with Burns addressing a contemporary: 'I gat your letter, winsome Willie; / Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie'.
Thinking like the undergraduate voice major I once was, I wrote down a list of words (balou, wagtail, brawlie, louns, weel, wanton), names (Sephestia, Rhadamanthus, Tartary, Tisiphone), and the names of the poets (Robert Burns, William Blake, Robert Greene, Thomas Randolph).