Sawney


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Sawney

(ˈsɔːnɪ)
n
1. (Peoples) a derogatory word for Scotsman
2. (also not capital) informal a fool
[C18: a Scots variant of Sandy, short for Alexander]
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"Thank you, Miss," said Bob, lifting his cap and showing a delighted face, but immediately relieving himself of some accompanying embarrassment by looking down at his dog, and saying in a tone of disgust, "Get out wi' you, you thunderin' sawney!"
"Women's cricket continues to go from strength to strength, and we are delighted and honoured the Commonwealth Games Associations voted to include Women's T20 cricket at Birmingham 2022," Sawney added.
Consistent Haider scored 33 off 42 balls with five boundaries before being trapped leg-before by Singapore left-arm spinner Ishaan Sawney.
'Today is all about legalizing software use and protecting companies from the dangers of unlicensed software,' said Tarun Sawney, senior director of BSA.
Until some point in the nineteenth century, the equivalent term for a generic male Scot was 'Sawney', but Smith, in employing 'Jock' as his character's name and play's title, enables himself to draw tor his drama on both meanings--Scottish common soldier and stereotyped Scot--so marking his character's performatively representational nature in the play.
"If we manage to get (it down by) five to six percent over the next two years, that will be a really, really good result," Tarun Sawney, BSA senior director for Asia Pacific, said during yesterday's launch of the Legalize and Protect campaign.
Waitress Olivia Moreton and barman Luke Sawney from The Wild Goose restaurant at Chester Lakes, near Dodleston, which has reopened.
The Strictly heartthrob whisked a thrilled 10-year-old Olivia Sawney off her feet as the TV duo dropped in on a dance class in Prestwich.
That these destabilizations are not restricted to contemporary texts and contexts is demonstrated by the two chapters on (Neo-)Victorian Gothic technologies: Maisha Wester's chapter 11, "Text as Gothic Murder Machine: The Cannibalism of Sawney Bean and Sweeney Todd," and Linnie Blake's chapter 12, "Neoliberal Adventures in Neo-Victorian Biopolitics: Marc Hodder's Burton and Swinburne's Novels."