A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1546
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Stuffet(t, -at, n. [? f. F. stafette (1596), estafette (1667) a mounted courier.] ? A groom or lackey, used as a term of abuse. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 131/17.
Cowkin kenseis and culroun kevellis Stuffettis, strekouris, and stafische strummellis 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 373.
Mak ȝour abbotis of rycht religious men … Bot not to rebaldis new cum frome the roste, Nor of ane stuffat stollin out of ane stabyll, The quhilk in to the scule maid neuer na coste, Nor neuer was tyll spirituall science abyll, Except the cartis, the dyce, the ches, and tabyll
