A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1645-1646
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Nescok, n. (In the mod. north-eastern dial. as esscock, escockle, also nesscockle and arsecockle, ‘an inflamed pimple on the face or any part of the body’, of obscure origin: it is uncertain which of the forms (without or with n-) are original and which by metanalysis.) —a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 13.
De Morbis … Furunculus a nescok


