hempie

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
2. isim A rogue.

   “'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'”

3. isim A wild, romping girl.

   ““Ay, ay,” answered Rob, “she's under lawfu' authority now; and full time, for she was a daft hempie[…]””

4. sıfat Deserving of being hanged.
5. sıfat Wild; riotous; mischievous.

   “The forst one's just as prood as us, / Te see his bonny mate, / An' if thor spared te grow up lads, / They'll fettle real forst-rate; / But if like hempy lads they fight, / We'll heh to keep them doon, / An’ try te myek them byeth as gud / As ony in the toon.”