A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1686
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Hyte. (Cf. mod. north. Eng. dial. heck ‘an exclam. used to order horses to come to the left’, later Sc. dial. (Donaldson, Suppl. to Jam.) heik, hike, id., also mod. Sc. and north. Eng. dial. hi(e, hye, id., and, in mod. north. Eng. dial. (EDD.) neither heck nor ree ‘neither left nor right’, he'll neither heck nor ree ‘he’ll not obey the word of command, he'll not hear reason, he's unmanageable'.) —1686 Stuart Joco-Ser. Disc. 29.
Lang time he had cast an eye At winsom Maistres Property, But she wou'd neither hyte nor rhee
