meericle

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mirɪkl̩/

Noun

meericle (plural meericles)

1. miracle
   • 1955, Goosepocket:

     ... erah, of cooperation shown therein, to-an-wit, it shows to all the world—er, ah —what good people can do if they will only pull together. Yea, yea, an' three sons did milk a bear, practicula meericle—er, ah—I say, a meericle! Amen—halellujah  ...

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   • 2018, John Lang, Jean Lang, Stories of the Border Marches, Litres, →ISBN:

     It's naething short o' a meericle?" Nor was it much short of a miracle, as Sir Patrick acknowledged. He had followed Allen at first as the grieve had thought, but his mind was full of the parting he had just gone through and of the misty future ...

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