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skean dhu

[ thoo, doo ]

noun

  1. a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.


skean-dhu

/ ˈskiËn-; ˈskiËÉ™nˈduË /

noun

  1. a variant of sgian-dhu
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of skean dhu1

First recorded in 1810–20, skean dhu is from Scots Gaelic sgian dhubh literally, “black skeanâ€
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Not, however, before poor Reginald was stabbed in the right chest with a skean dhu, the little dagger that kilted Highlanders wear in their right stocking.

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Beside it was a Skean Dhu sheath and a broken Buckfast tonic wine bottle.

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Ye'll pe ken there's twa kinds o' pluid in te human body—a red and a plack: te ane comes frae flesh wounds o' te skean dhu, when it's bashfu, and winna gang far ben; and te other follows te plow o' te determined dirk, when it seeks te habitation o' life in te heart itsel.

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Angus, in short, although they had made him a clergyman, would, it was believed by those who knew him, have carried his skean dhu with him to the pulpit.

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I parted with Eliza Stewart; and we never met again, as, in a few days afterwards, I left the island; and with this event terminated all connecting circumstances on my part with "The Skean Dhu."

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