Nieveful

April 21, 1785, Robert Burns, epistle to J. Lapraik their worthless nievefu' o' a soul

Flesh and blood could not stand it, more especially when I thought on who had dared to presume to call me such; so, in a whirlwind of fury, I swept up two nievefuls of dominoes off the table, and made them flee into the bleezing fire […]