blate

We're no blate at askin' the lawin', although some folk are unco' slow at payin' o't. It's just four-and-six.

"You're too blate, Colin," he said, and then he put his arm through his wife's and gave her a squeeze to take her into his joke.

He's 'no blate,' as they used to say in Scotland, and made himself quite at home to-night.

But I dinna ken the way ot, father; I neer did sic a thing a my days; odd, Im unco blate to tryt.

But the compliment is like the chariot-wheels o Pharaoh, sae dreigh o drawing, that I canna afford to be blate wi you ony langer.