A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1573, 1643
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Dirt, n. Also: dyrt, deirt. [ME. dirt, dyrt (15th c.), for earlier drit Drit n.] Dirt; excrement.1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 399.
To covir the kingis clathes … for cowm and dirt a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 452.
Thy dirt clevis till hir towis this twenty yere a1508 Ib. 519.
Thy dok of dirt dreipis, and will newir dry c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 120.
Thre dayis in dub amang the dukis He did with dirt him hyde c1540 Lynd. Syde Taillis 83.
Quha mycht behald thare sweitie theis. Begairit all with dirt and dust 1567 Criminal Trials I. 500.
The langer deirt is hydden, it is the stronger 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 91.
Thare began flyting … ‘I defy thé whytcoite’, ‘dyrt vpon your teithe’, [etc.] 1643 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 4.
Injureing Andro Meldrum … be saying this disdainfull wordis to him, Dirt in your teith, wain fellow
