Sweere-arse
Published July 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized
Sweere-arse or Sweere-tree were, according to John Jamieson, the name of a game amongst Scottish school children, in which two of them are seated on the ground, and holding a stick between them, endeavour each of them to draw the other up from the sitting posture. The heaviest in the posterior wins.
References
- MacKay, Charles – A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888)
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