Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Scottish

Low as horse’s hoof.

It’s as true as Biglam’s cat crew, and the cock rock’d the cradle.

Her browe was like the mountain snae
Gilt by the morning beam.

Her cheeks like living roses glow.

Fades awa’ like morning dew.

Her hair was like the threads of gold.

Shimmered like the sun.

Sweete as the infant spring.

As cheeky as a young bantam cock.

As clean as a leek.

As dark as a Yule midnight.

As deaf as Ailsa Craig.

As deep as Pedwell.

As dejected as a wet hen.

As dumb as a dead cuddy.

As false as Waghorn, and he was nineteen times falser than the deil.

As fat as a distillery pig.

As fat as a Miller’s horse.

As fierce as the Pentland Firth.

As fu’ as a biled wulk.

As fu’ as a piper.

As fu’ as the Baltic.

As glum as a man who has found a penny and lost a sixpence.

As greedy as ten cocks scraping in a dunghill for ae barley pickle.

As happy as the day is lang.

As high as Gilderoy.

As merry as the maltman.

As plump as a miller’s sparrow.

As proud as a Highlander.

As quiet as a settin’ hen.

As ragged and dirty as a Leith carter’s pony.