hempie
Etymology
From hemp + -ie.
hempie means deserving of being hanged. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
adj
- Deserving of being hanged.
- Wild; riotous; mischievous.“The forst one's just as prood as us, / Te see his bonny mate, / An' if thor spared te grow up lads, / They'll fettle real forst-rate; / But if like hempy lads they fight, / We'll heh to keep them doon, / An’ try te myek them byeth as gud / As ony in the toon.”
noun
- A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.
- A rogue.“'Ha, ha, Patie lad!' quo Bessie Elliot, a free-spoken Liddesdale hempy, 'there's a wife com'd for ye the night, Patie lad.'”
- A wild, romping girl.““Ay, ay,” answered Rob, “she's under lawfu' authority now; and full time, for she was a daft hempie[…]””