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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quillety, n. [Appar. deriv. of e.m.E. and late ME (Lydgate) quill, quyl(l etc., hollow stem, small pipe, tap or faucet, etc.] A fanciful (? nonce) name for the penis. —Urquhart Rabelais (1900) i xi 56.
One of them would call it her little dille her staff of love her quillety her faucetin her dandilollie

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