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.
Quotation dates: 1460-1508, 1606-1617, 1700+
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]
(Stekit,) Stikit, Stickit, -ed, ppl. adj.1 [ME and e.m.E. stiked (a1330), styked (Chaucer), stikkyd (Prompt. Parv.), sticked (1565); Stek(e v.1] Pierced, stabbed, in sense 1 of the verb. b. specif. Of a pig: Stuck. —1460 Hay Alex. 2172.
Mycht nane gang in that hall for stikit men a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 548 (B).
Hangit mangit Eddirstangit … Pickit wickit stickit convickit lamp lullardorum 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xiv.
The corps of sticked Tarquin —b. 1617 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 218.
[The Sheriff Depute, after hearing proof, allowed 30 merks for the three] stikit [pigs] 1713 Wodrow Analecta II 154.
In a litle time you shall be brought into this very church, like a sticked sou
