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well-a-wins, int. Sc.
In quots. will-, weel-, wull-.
Altered form of wellaway.
a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 79 Ah! willawins for Scotland now. a1800Lady Jane, in Jamieson Pop. Ballads (1806) II. 81 O willawins! that graceless scorn Should love like mine repay. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xi, Wull a wins!—such a misfortune to befa' the House of Ravenswood, and I to live to see it! 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 51 But will-a-wins! Your hands are toom. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb iii. 23 Weel-a-wuns, than, Jinsie,..we'se lat 'im rest's banes in peace an' quaetness. |