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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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DISJASKIT, -ET, adj. Also disjasked, -id, disjaiskit, disjackit, disgesked, dedzjaskit, -et, dejaustit. [dɪs′dʒɑskət Sc., Rxb. + -′dʒeskət, də′dʒɒstət]

1. Dejected, downcast, depressed (Sh.¹⁰ 1948; n.Sc. 1808 Jam.; Bnff.², Abd. correspondents, Fif.¹⁰, Lnk.¹¹ 1940; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.).Sh. 1924 T. Manson Humours Peat Comm. III. xlv.:
I saw the telegram in your hand and you sitting in what you would term a very . . . disjaskid attitude.Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 7:
He wis glowerin, disjaskit, at the bonnie metal boolie in his haun, thinkin foo scunnert he wis,...Ags. 1918 V. Jacob More Songs 33:
I'm fairly disjaskit, Christina, The warld an' its glories are toom.m.Sc. 1979 Tom Scott in Joy Hendry Chapman 23-4 (1985) 87:
Let us hear again thon benwart glory
That burns throu time wi daethless love,
Steirin thocht o auld, heroic livin
In this dow, disjackit land. Lth. 1925 C. P. Slater Marget Pow 130:
Poor felly! the last I saw of him he was lookin efter the steamer quite disjaskit.Gsw. 1933 F. Niven Mrs Barry 120:
But the icy glitter of the slides quickly changed to a dark smear of mere dampness. Disaskit, forfoughten, these are the Scots words to describe how the children looked then.

2. (1) Dilapidated, neglected, broken-down, untidy (Sh.¹⁰ 1948; Bnff.², Abd.⁹, Ags.², Fif.¹, Kcb.¹⁰ 1940); muddled (Ags.¹⁷ 1940).Sc. 1816 Scott O. Mortality xli.:
Tak the first broken disjasked-looking road that makes for the hills.Sc. 1835 Tait's Mag. (Aug.) 540:
I've got intil a bad habit o' writing lang disjasket sort o' sentences.Ork. 1880 Dennison Sketch-Bk. 40:
They fand the hoose a' disjaskit an' i' spullye.Abd. 1865 G. Macdonald Alec Forbes III. i.:
The buiks are beginnin' to ken by this time what they're aboot; for sic a throuither disjaskit midden o' lere, I never saw.Mearns 1933 “L. G. Gibbon” Cloud Howe iii. 201:
The old men mostly, disjaskèd, ill-dressed, with their white spinner faces.Knr. 1741 Session Papers, Stedman v. Couper, State of Process 6:
The Deponent frequently observed her Mistress disgesked-like, and her Clothes ruffled and out of Order.Edb. 1872 J. Smith Jenny Blair's Maunderings (1881) 41:
An auld yellow cotton rag that he dignifies wi' the name o' a Sunday shirt! — the disjasket-lookin' crater!Kcb. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xxxii.:
Keep your ill tongue for that disjaskit, ill-put-thegither rachle o' banes that ye hae for guidman.

(2) Exhausted, worn-out; weary-looking (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl., dedzjasket; Sh.¹⁰ 1948; Mry.¹ 1925; Bnff.², Abd.¹⁹, Ags.², Fif.¹⁰, Lnk.¹¹ 1940; Lth. 1926 Wilson Cent. Scot.; Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 173; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., disjaiskit, dejaustit).Sc. ? 1830 Scott Letters (1936) XI. 362:
They arrived . . . 24 hours out of time in a very disjasket condition.Sc. 1923 R. MacRailt Hoolachan 29–30:
A' my bones broken, my nervous system sorely disjaskit.Sh. 1947 New Shetlander (Aug.–Sept.) 19:
Dedzjaskit, a hairst time, wi' kruklin ta shaer.ne.Sc. 1884 D. Grant Lays (1908) 114:
Drookit, dowie, an' disjaskit, Duncan left his dreepin' lair.Hdg. 1902 J. Lumsden Toorle, etc. 73:
He's sair, sair ta'en in, an's lookin' meeserable an' disjaskit an' forfoch'en.