A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Log(g)erhead, n. [e.m.E. (Shakespeare).] A blockhead. —1647 Baillie III. 22.
[To] be called a loger, a bull or neatshead 1665-76 Lauder Jrnl. 121.
I fell to and abuse them in Scots, as logerhead, ye are a sheip, etc. 1674 Bk. Pasquils 198.
To term me loggerhead and ass 1686 Hawick Ann. 88.
