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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gude dame, Guddame, Gudame, n. Also: guid, good(e) dam(e; guddaime, gwd-, godame, gudam, gwd-, gudem; guidame, goodame, -am, -em; gud(e)-, guidhame. [Northern ME. gude dame, gudame (1483).] A grandmother.(a) c1420 Wynt. viii. 343.
My lady yhoure guddame wes myne awnt c1500-c1512 Dunb. v. 38.
Drink with my guddame, as ȝe ga by 1526 Reg. Privy S. I. 522/2.
Decernand hir to … be aire to umquhile dame Nicholace Ker … her gud dame 1539 Ib. II. 450/1.
Successour to umquhill Elizabeth Halkerstoun, his guddamis nece 1554 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I. 154.
Nyne merk land … vacand last be the deces of his wmquhil guddaime 1577 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 61.
The Quene Regent, oure darrest guddame of gude memorie 1596 Maxwell Mem. & Chart. II. 185.
Wpon necessitie my gudesone man overhip his father and entir air to his guddame 1626 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 252.
Vmquhill Queine Marie, our said souerane lords darrest guddame(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. v. 1.
My gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes rycht gend 1536 Glasgow Prot. IV. 86.
Robert Smyth and Merren Bwrell, his gwtchar and godame 1546 Reg. Privy C. I. 37.
Ane sufficient procuratory of Agnes his gudem and his fader 1563 Glasg. Dioc. Reg. I. 119.
Jonet Maxwel, his gwdame, brwkand induring hir wedowheid 1567 Banff Ann. II. 384.
The proffit … to be reserwit to Mariorie Gartullie the said Elezabethis gwdem bean a wedew 1584 Acts III. 366/2.
In the tyme of vmquhile hienes derrest gudame, Marie quene dowuar 1605 Reg. Privy C. VII. 71.
Being ryding … toward the place of Drumquhallantie for viseting of her gudam 1622-6 Bisset I. 72/11.
In oure soverane lord, his … darrest guidschir and gudames tymes 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 218.
The compleaners gooddam is by tack provyded … to the lands of Penstoun(c) 1570 Leslie 294.
Sho remanit certane dayis with the auld duches hir guidame 1572 Reg. Privy C. II. 160.
In the regnne of … his Hienes guidame, the Quene dowarrer of gude memory 1596 Dalr. II. 456/1.
The Quene certane dayes had maid residence with her guidame Duiches of Guise 1622-6 Bisset II. 98/13.
His guidame … quha wes the heretrice leved eftir there mother 1656 Brechin Test. VI. 17 b.
Such soume if ane shall be giwen or left to hir be hir said goodame 1662 Highland P. III. 8.
That … Jonat McNeill and all hir goodams bairnes were witches 1705 Cromarty Corr. I. 296.
Your Lordships goodems kinn may sell their estates in that earldome(d) 1562 Prot. Bk. J. Robeson 156.
Johne Husband … nevoy and ane of the foure airis of … vmquhile Agnes Grayhis gude dame 1570 Leslie 295.
Quhen that the Quenes Majestie had tareit with the duiches her guiddame certane dayes 1594 Prot. Bk. T. Auchinlek 34 b.
Hir wmquhill guid schir Ollaw Lowttit … , Ratchell Lowtit his guiddam 1613 Melrose P. I. 108.
We wryte for the laird of Johnstoun, his moder, and goddedame 1633 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 150.
He … saw his guiddame, siting within the fornameit old howse 1639 Misc. Spald. C. V. 326.
Hir guiddam wes Mariorie Forbes 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 218.
The said Dame Grissell Hamiltoune, his gooddame(e) c 1550 Elphinston Mem. 259.
[Niece and heir to the late] Katherine Arbuthnot, her gudehame 1593 Acts IV. 48/2.
His hienes darrest guidhame 1675 Melrose Reg. Rec. II. 402.
Janet Mein, goodhame to the pursuer
