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: 1400-1683
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Peper, Pepper, -ir, n. Also: pip- and -yre, -ar. [ME. and e.m.E. pepir (a 1300), -er, -ur, pepper (1543), also peopur (14th c.), piper (Piers Plowman C), OE. pipor (*peopor, *piopor).] Pepper.a. The plant. b. The condiment. c. ? A peppercorn.Lang, long peper, long pepper.sing. (1) c1420 Wynt. i. 655.
Thare pepyre [E. peppir, W. pepper] growys that off hewe Is qwhyt quhill it is growand newe 14.. Acts I. 305/2.
For custome of karkys or balys of peper comyn [etc.] 1495 Halyb. 22; etc.
3 dossin pepar cost 19 g[rot]is li. … 2 dossyn gyingar 1495 Ib. 109; etc.
12 li. peper cost 19 s. 1501 Acts Lords of Council MS. XI. 86 b.
Five pundis of pepar the price of the pund vj s. viij d. for annuale of the sadis landis 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 137.
For the pound of peper yeirlie tane of ane tenement of George Lydderdaill 1598 Stirling Ant. III. 308.
Pepir 1612 Old Ross-shire I. 113.
Ane pund peper pryce xxx sh. 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 25 Sept.
For grund peperplur. 1491–2 Dunferm. B. Rec. 34.
j lb peperis vj s.(b) 1495 Halyb. 198.
4 dossin of pepper cost 19 s. the dossin 1507 Montgomery Mem. 68.
Foure chalder of mele and ane pund of peppir 1513 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 488. 1527–8 Stirling B. Rec. I. 31. a1500 Henr. III. 151/35 (B).
Put all thir in ane pan with pepper and pik 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I. 212 b.
Ane polk of pepper … quhilk wes in the schip brokin at Were and wat in the sey c1575 Balfour Pract. 87. a 1595 Misc. Spald. C. II. xxx.
Tak alme pepper and ginger and birne them togidder be thai become lyik wax and put the sam in the hoill of the tuith a1598 Ferg. Prov. No. 539 (see Mous n. b). 1611 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II. 98. 1622 Edinburgh Testaments LI. 255 b.
Thriescoir … pund wecht of wett pepper(c) c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 4768.
With that he tuke of piper in his neif 1512 Household Bk. Jas. IV 26 a.
Piper 1622 Brechin Testaments IV. 62 b.
Tuentie sex vnces of piper pryce xxxix s.(2) 1504 Treasurer's Accounts II. 445.
Half ane pund lang piper a1568 Bannatyne MS 128 a/54.
Long pepper chyce with nettill nyce To metegat hir finger
d. To raise pepper in (another's) nose, to anger or infuriate him.1681 Fountainhall Decis. I. 137.
To … treat him as a fool would raise pepper and passion in any man's nose
e. Attrib. and comb.Pepper-myln = Peper-quern.(1) 1631 Edinburgh Testaments LV. 165.
Ane pepper mylne [20/-] 1632 Ib. LVI. 23 b.
Fowre pepper milnes pryce [£4, 16 s.] 1646 Ib. LXII. ii. 1653 Ib. LXVII. 144.
Ane yron peper mylne —a 1683 Craven Ch. in Orkney 106.
Ane disson peppar-pickles —a1568 Jok & Jynny 53.
Ane pepper polk maid of a padill(2) 1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 146.
Pepper cullorit claytht
