Definition of "neuks" [neuks]

• Plural form of neuk. (noun)

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• "I had the task of launching into the sky all the seabirds from all the cliffs of Shetland: the shags and razorbills from the boulders at the sea edge, the guillemots and kittiwakes from the open faces of rock, the gannets from their shantytowns along ridge backs and fault lines, the fulmars from the tussocked neuks below the cliff lip, and the puffins from their burrows in the turf on the top."
• "I felt the tears in my eyes, and, wondering at myself, I cast a stealthy glance at the men about me; and I saw that they, too, were looking through their hearts 'windows upon firesides and ingle-neuks that gleamed from far."
• "_Bartley Fallon: _ The sort that will be in it will be a bad sort -- sievemakers and tramps and neuks."