Comments on: in the Robbie Burns poem..What’s the meaning of the term: "c0ck up your beaver"? http://www.bluebonnetsbootsandbooks.com/bonnets-hats/in-the-robbie-burns-poem-whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-c0ck-up-your-beaver Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:53:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Doc http://www.bluebonnetsbootsandbooks.com/bonnets-hats/in-the-robbie-burns-poem-whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-c0ck-up-your-beaver/comment-page-1#comment-3045 Joe Doc Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:22:59 +0000 http://www.bluebonnetsbootsandbooks.com/bonnets-hats/in-the-robbie-burns-poem-whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-c0ck-up-your-beaver#comment-3045 Hey, brave Johnie lad, c0ck up your beaver! (raise up your hat - beaver is hat) C0ck up your beaver, and c0ck it fu’ sprush, (sprush is spruce. "full smart" as in "spruce it up" look sharp) We’ll over the border, and gie them a brush; (gie is give) The first stanza is a traditional English ballad mocking Scots and the second is Burns)<br><b>References : </b><br>The Complete Works of Robert Burns Part Four - by Robert Burns - 2004 - Page 58 Hey, brave Johnie lad, c0ck up your beaver! (raise up your hat – beaver is hat)

C0ck up your beaver, and c0ck it fu’ sprush, (sprush is spruce. "full smart" as in "spruce it up" look sharp)

We’ll over the border, and gie them a brush; (gie is give)

The first stanza is a traditional English ballad mocking Scots and the second is Burns)
References :
The Complete Works of Robert Burns Part Four –
by Robert Burns – 2004 -
Page 58

]]> By: Patricia C http://www.bluebonnetsbootsandbooks.com/bonnets-hats/in-the-robbie-burns-poem-whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-c0ck-up-your-beaver/comment-page-1#comment-3044 Patricia C Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:06:59 +0000 http://www.bluebonnetsbootsandbooks.com/bonnets-hats/in-the-robbie-burns-poem-whats-the-meaning-of-the-term-c0ck-up-your-beaver#comment-3044 Not the answer you were probably hopng for, but the beaver was a hat. :)<br><b>References : </b><br> Not the answer you were probably hopng for, but the beaver was a hat. :)
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