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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1685
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(Wattirish,) Watrish, adj. [e.m.E. wateryshe (1530), watrish (1556).] = Wattiry adj. 1. —1685 Erskine Diary 116.
There was good grass … yet a watrish spouting ground