A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bollok, variant of Ballok. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 119.
To latt thy bollokis gyngill 1623 Falkirk Par. Rec. I. 38.
He being … upone the Hie Streit byeing ane bollok from the fleschers