A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1456, 1507, 1657-1658
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Stoppit, Stoped, ppl. adj. [ME and e.m.E. stopped (1342-3), stoppyd (Prompt. Parv.), stopt (1599); Stop v.] a. predic. Having the voice obstructed; hoarse. b. attrib. Of the mouth: Obstructed, blocked, so as to prevent speech. c. ? Stuffed, padded. —a. 1456 Hay II 157/21.
Sum man stoppit as a crok, and sum clere syngand as a nychtingale —b. a1658 Durham Blessedness Death (1682) 51.
To goe with a blecked face & a stoped mouth to the throne of grace —c. 1507 Treasurer's Accounts III 396.
Tua stoppit theis for bardis, tagging and bukkilling of his harnes sadil
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