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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1500-1512, 1572

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Pech, n. [e.m.E. pegh (1624). Also in the mod. dial. Cf. Pech,v., also north. Eng. and north. Ir. dial. peff, a pant.] A short laboured breath, a puff, pant or gasp. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. xiii. 53.
Ȝung monkis … Full faderlyk with pechis and pantis
1572 Satirical Poems xxxii. 90.
With panefull pech, with mony grank and grane
1572 Ib. xxxiii. 400.
He gaif ane greit pech lyke ane weill fed stirk

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