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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1572-1609, 1660-1697
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Thigging, vbl. n. Also: thihging, thiggin, -yn(e. [North. ME thiggynges pl. (1331), thyggynge (Prompt. Parv.); Thig v.] Begging; soliciting or obtaining (something) by begging.(1) 1513 Doug. viii Prol. 74.
Scho will nocht wirk thocht scho want, bot wastis hir tyme In thiggyn [Sm. thiggin, Ruddim. thigging], as it thrift war, and other vayn thewis 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii 308.
Quhairof dois serue our greit cheir and fair bigging Bot for to help the pure that gais a thigging? 1609 Ellon Presb. 78.
Confessit that being ane puir man haveing ane croft and peis land he devysit this play and dansing of ane gay meir to be ane motive to him to get corne be thihging to saw his land 1697 Justiciary for Securing the Peace of the Highlands.
[Any persons] suspected of … resett of thift, robries, depredations, sornings, thigging [etc.](2) 1660 Sc. Ch. Hist. Soc. Rec. V 149.
A referre fra the sessions of Airlie and Lentrathen of on Alexander Farquhar … who under pretense of thigging corne had come to an honest man's house
b. A small quantity (of something) solicited or begged for; a request or solicitation (for something).(1) 1579 Inverness Rec. I 272.
Desyring of him ane thiggyne of corne, quha gaiff him ane stowke of aittis(2) 1667 Highland P. II 24 (see Thig v. 1 c).
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