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Guid Man
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guidman
Scots
Proper noun
sco proper noun The Guid Man
God general in children's language
sco 1839 William McDowall Poems Who gave them food, and calmed their souls with prayer; 'Twas the good man, the lisping infant cries.
sco 1870 James Nicholson Idylls o' Hame Nae doot it was the Good Man wha made the flowerets wee.
sco 1947 J. F. Hendry Fernie Brae Pale, delicate, bob-haired Peggy Robertson, . . . when she had died, had, his mother explained, “gone to the Gude Man.”
References
guid adj., adv., n., v Guid Man 11 June 2024 SND
sco God Religion