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

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pelt, n.2 (e.m.E. (1567) ‘trash or rubbish in the way of clothes, rags’, and in the mod. Sc. dial. = trash, rubbish; applied to a person as a term of abuse.) —a1605 Montg. Flyt. 266 (Hart).
This prouerb, foule pelt [T. peild pellet, H. foull pett], to thee is applyit

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