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

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Bad, (baud,) a. [ME. bad, badde (late 13th c.), of doubtful origin.] Bad, poor. Also absol.a1499 Contempl. Synn. 1240 (of that bad bale). a1500 Doug. K. Hart 559 (thair burding wes bad); 1513 Æn. i. Prol. 21 (with bad harsh spech); xi. vi. 131 (myschews and bad to se). a1585 Maitl. Q. lxv. 87 (the bad abydis); lxvi. 29 (the husband gud or bad).

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