A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Hudibras, v. [f. Samuel Butler's Hudibras, the mock-heroic satirical poem and its hero.] tr. To make a fool of, scoff at. —1676 Lauder Jrnl. 214.
Had he forsein that they would have hudibrased him in the manner they did 1676 Id. in Brown Decis. Suppl. III. 67.
I have heard some hudibrass the initialia testimoniorum. .as an impertinent. .old style
