A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1490, 1604-1614
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Orpit, ppl. a.1 Also: arpit. [f. Orpe v. Also in the mod. dial.] Fretful, discontented, peevish. —c1490 Irland Asl. MS. 64/12.
The place that God Almychti has ordanit to him in the hevyne … he has lauborit to distroy he may be callit ane orpit fule a1605 Montg. Flyt. 87 (T).
Arpit angrie Ettercoip a1614 Cowper Dikaiologie (1614) 143 (Jam.).
You seeme to be very earnest here, but all men may see it is but your orpit or ironic conceit
