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: 1540, 1657-1670
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Juffle, v. Also jufflane ppl. a. and juffling vbl. n. [Perh. onomatopoeic; perh. akin to e.m.E. shuffe. Also in the mod. (appar. chiefly south. Sc.) dial. in similar senses.] a. v. intr. To scuffle, wrestle confusedly or scramblingly, with another. b. ppl. a. Fumbling, bungling. c. vbl. n., fig. —a. a1658 Durham Scandal 363.
Men, being in the dark, and in a distemper, were led away by tentation, and … made to juffle with, and trample one upon anotherb. 1540 Lynd. Sat. Proclam. 218.
Scho may call me ane jufflane Jok, Or I swyve I mon brek the lokc. 1670 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 72.
His frequent juffling with, ensnaring and affronting of the magistratts of Leith … by louseing at his own hand arreistments laid on by ordor of the baillies there