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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.

Quotation dates: 1569-1586

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Bob, Bobe, n.2 [Variant of Bub n.] A gust or blast of wind.a1570-86 J. Maitland Maitland Folio MS clxxvii. 19.
Be war with bobbis, scho is ane bruckill barge a1570-86 Ib. 26.
All Boreas bitter blastis are nocht blawin; I feir sum boid and bobbis be behind a1578 Pitsc. II. 81/4.
Thair raise so great ane bobe of wind out of the sie … that all men was affrayit

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