Word: rantin
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...bronze bust of Burns in the midst of gilt-framed romantic Highland scenes presides over the Caledonian Club dining room. Tom Quinn is singing "Rantin', Rovin' Robin" accompanied by Clive Gavin on piano as the members and guests digest. When wearing trousers, by day, both men are senior managers for the Royal Bank of Scotland...
This sly threnody to the dead innocence of an innkeeper's daughter is as randy as Editors W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson allowed Robert Burns to be in the magnificent 1896-97 centenary edition of the poet's work. But Rantin' Rab enjoyed writing of houghmagandy (bed games) as much as he liked baiting the kirk, as he made plain in such poems as The Court of Equity and The Fornicator, which are usually found in the sort of editions that are passed around privately. In his new comic novel, Scots Author Linklater has done...
...orders: nae Campbells, nae Catholics, and nae lassies from Erismore Isle. An' he haes the cantie assistance, in a' this clishmaclaver, o' Frank Launder an' Sidney Gilliat, the same glib-gabbit couple o' callans as made Wee Geordie (TIME, Oct. 29, 1956) sic a rantin' raible o' sculdudd...
...rantin dog, the daddie...
When I mount the creepie-chair,* Wha will sit beside me there? Gie me Rob, I'll seek nae mair, The rantin dog, the daddie...