greetto grieve; lament; cry
A Match for Sister Maggy was chock-a-block with 'ach', 'wee', 'fash', and 'bairn'. I knew all those and was entirely prepared to use one of them for my Word of the Day--until I came upon a word I had never heard before:
She stared at the beautiful alter through tears, fiercely wiped away. 'Fool,' she whispered, 'greeting like a bairn...'
The meaning was clear enough given the context but don't you just love the Scots?
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