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

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1500-1605

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Dud(d)is, n. pl. [e.m.E. duddes, pl. of ME. dudde (15th c.).] Poor or ragged clothes. —a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 384.
Bairfut, brekeles, and all in duddis vpdost 15.. Sym & Bruder 66.
Bot or thay twynd him & his dudis The tyme of none wes tareit a1605 Montg. Flyt. 365 (T).
Quhen thy duddis are bedirtin

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