We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more

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

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

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

Pew, Peu, v. [e.m.E. and ME. pew (1398), pue (1586), to cry in a plaintive manner, as a bird. Cf. Pew n.1] intr. of birds: To cry; to peep. —1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 93.
Scho wald … Pew lyk the gled and chant lyke the lauerock Ib. 698.
We sall gar cheknis cheip and geaslyngis pew [: rew] Ib. 763. 1549 Compl. 39/9.
The chekyns began to peu quhen the gled quhissillit

31215

dost