Meaning of camstairy | Babel Free

Definitions

unruly; unmanageable

Scotland, archaic

Examples

“"Ah!" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.”

“My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.”

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