A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1549
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Tueit, exclam. [19th c. Eng. tweet (1845). Cf. e.m.E. twite (1562) the mountain linnet.] The cry of a bird. —1549 Complaynte of Scotland 39/27.
The oxee cryit tueit