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

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sissok, n. [? Sc. pet form of Cis, Cecily, by analogy with Kittok, pet form of Katherine. Denton Fox, in The Poems of Robert Henryson (OUP, 1981) 218, suggests that sissok ‘might be a nonce-form derived from sister, with a humorous -ok suffix to match the hens’ names.'] A woman of low character; a concubine, mistress. = Kittok n. —a1500 Henr. Fab. 533 (Bann.).
Seis coud he nocht with sissokkis mo than sevin

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