Meaning & use
Cauld
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Cold, in Scots dialect and Scottish English.
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The wind was fair cauld coming off the loch that morning.
She wrapped up warm against the cauld winter air.
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A Scots word still used in everyday Scottish speech, as in the exclamation 'It's cauld the day!'; it also appears throughout the poetry of Robert Burns.
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