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 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1500-1512, 1603

[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

Snawi(s)ch, adj. [ME and e.m.E. snowisse (Chaucer), -ych (Lydgate), snawishe (1566).] Snowy, snow-white. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xxxvii 9.
This angellis weid wes snawich [pr. snawith] in cullour 1603 Philotus 482.
Ȝour snawisch cheiks lyke quhytest allabast

38511

dost