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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: 1570-1652

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Pik-, Pyk-, Pick-tuth, -tuith, n. Also: pyc- and -tooth, -touth, -toath; pl. also -teithe. [e.m.E. picketooth (1594): cf. Pike-tuithe n.] A toothpick. Also attrib. with -cace.plur. 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 363 b.
Five almonie piktuithis
1589 Balcarres P. V. MS. 197.
Ane cais of gold for pykteithe
1603 Montgomery Mem. 250.
Pyktouths
1615 Reg. Privy S. 21 Nov.
Pyctuthes
sing. c 1570 Maxwell Mem. II. 138.
Ane pyk tuith
1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI. 174.
The gouldin pyktuth quhilks I leif to … my gvd sone
attrib. 1652 Montgomery Mem. 318.
A piktooth case and piktooth of gold

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