"breeks" meaning in Scots

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Noun

Rhymes: -iːkz Head templates: {{head|sco|noun form}} breeks
  1. breeches, trousers
    Sense id: en-breeks-sco-noun-2miqsMkK Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Scots entries with incorrect language header
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "lang_code": "gd",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "briogais"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "breeks",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Plague o' Playin' Bools, in Poems and Songs chiefly in the Scottish Language (1877), edited by James M. Neilson",
          "roman": "Oot at ilka knee.",
          "text": "Bools are maybe walth tae him,\nBut they're loss tae me;\nThere he's comin' wi' his breeks"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "breeches, trousers"
      ],
      "id": "en-breeks-sco-noun-2miqsMkK",
      "links": [
        [
          "breeches",
          "breeches"
        ],
        [
          "trousers",
          "trousers"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːkz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breeks"
}
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    {
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      "lang_code": "gd",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "briogais"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "noun form"
      },
      "expansion": "breeks",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
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        "Scots noun forms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Plague o' Playin' Bools, in Poems and Songs chiefly in the Scottish Language (1877), edited by James M. Neilson",
          "roman": "Oot at ilka knee.",
          "text": "Bools are maybe walth tae him,\nBut they're loss tae me;\nThere he's comin' wi' his breeks"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "breeches, trousers"
      ],
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        [
          "breeches",
          "breeches"
        ],
        [
          "trousers",
          "trousers"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːkz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breeks"
}

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