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Scots
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houghmagandie
- childbearing
c. 1785, Robert Burns, “The Holy Fair”, in Complete Poems & Songs, Oxford Paperbacks, →ISBN, Stanza XXVII, page 109:There's some are fou o' love divine, / There's some are fou o' brandy; / An' monie jobs that day begin, / May end in Houghmagandie / Some ither day.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (by extension) fornication