Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “jock”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Muirland Jock! muirland Jock, when the L—d makes a rock,
To crush common-sense for her sins;
Read full poem →Here is Murray’s fragments o’ the ten commands;
Gifted by black Jock to get them aff his hands.
Buy braw troggin, &c.
Read full poem →Though Jock an’ hav’rel Jean are merry—
Some devil seize them in a hurry,
Read full poem →You in the bomb-scorched kilt, poor sprawling Jock,
You tottered here and fell, and stumbled on,
Read full poem →Then it stopped, and we heard Lenny’s voice say “This is your twelve
o'clock disc jock, Lenny Shepherd, with a round-up of the tops in
pops. Number Ten in the wagon train this week is none other than
Read full poem →And every wife to another can say,
"That's the man loosed Jock o' the Side!"
Read full poem →For Michael o' Winfield he is dead,
And Jock o' the Side is prisoner ta'en.
Read full poem →belonged to Fair Johnie Armstrang, his brother Willie, and the Laird's
Jock, of which Dickie carried off two, and left that of the Laird's
Jock, probably out of gratitude for the protection he had afforded him
Read full poem →Sleep'ry Sim of the Lamb-hill,
And snoring Jock of Suport-mill,
Ye are baith right het and fou';--