tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4566947333586056503..comments2024-03-29T10:02:55.374+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Hirpling OnNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-36885653983012768462016-12-13T10:13:31.594+00:002016-12-13T10:13:31.594+00:00Lovely stuff - a pleasure to come across words lik...Lovely stuff - a pleasure to come across words like this, words that work but somehow get lost...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-58161938699455901612016-12-12T22:05:19.875+00:002016-12-12T22:05:19.875+00:00Scots/Ulster Scots is right I think: the word come...Scots/Ulster Scots is right I think: the word comes up several times in Burns -- there's a line about a hare hirpling over the furrows -- and also Heaney's Beowulf: "He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped with it".jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.com