A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
(Spiting,) Spyting, vbl. n. [Late ME spytyng (1460).] The action of insulting a person. —1668 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II 417.
[A complaint made by John Cunynghame … against John Ferguson … anent] ane high insolencie committed be him upon the said Johne Cunynghame, baylie, in calling him a lyar and spyting him and all his kin, and that when he had threatned to imprison him for the saids opprobrious … expressions he became the more insolent
