A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1661-1700+
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Job-trot(t, n. Also : jobb- and -troot. [Appar. Job v.; Trot n. Cf. Jock-trot and the later Eng. jog-trot (1756) f. jog (see Jog v.2).] A jog-trot, a slow or easy-going pace. fig. b. Also attrib. as adj. — 1661 Baillie III. 469.
At the beginning of the Parliament there were many brave designs for … more use of trade; but after much toome talk, all seems to be vanished, the burroughs sticking absolutely to their old job-trot for their own hurt ?1661-5 M. Bruce Soul-Confirm. 15.
You that keeps only your old job-troot and does not mend your pace, you will not wone at soul-confirmation 1707 Wodrow in Maxwell Mem. II. 353.
I fear a fast in the English style will goe very ill doun in this country, and if it could be smoothed and reduced to somquhat of our old job-trott … it might prevent much grumblingb. ?1665 M. Bruce Six Dreadful Alarms 18.
He is sure of the censure of a whean old jobb-trot Christians that hath joined with the curats ?1661-5 Id. Soul-Confirm. 15.
There is a whine old job-troot ministers among us, a whine old job-troot professors; they have their own pace and faster they will not go
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