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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tuchet, Tuquheit, n. Also: tuechit, touchet, touquhit, tequhyt, tewwhit, (tuquhyt, tyhwite). [e.m.E. tuwyte (1592), tewit (1678), echoic in origin.] The lapwing. Also in place-names. c1320 Liber Calchou 199.
A parte boreali del Tyhwitemore c1320 Liber Calchou 200.
Vsque ad le Tyhwitemore 1475 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 585.
Usque ad le Tuquhyt Myre c1450-2 Howlat 821 (A).
The tuchet [B. tuquheit] and the gukkit golk a1538 Abell 69b.
Sum wsis the blude of the touquhit or othir bestis 1549 Compl. 39/22.
The tuechitis cryit theuis nek, quhen the piettis clattrit 1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II 185.
The best quhaip viij d., the best tuquheit iij d., the best pudȝeoun ij d. obl. 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 337.
The tuquheit and the sterling than, … Flew in an randell richt 1629 Orkney Witch Trial in Dalyell Darker Superst. 150 n.
Get the bones of ane tequhyt and carry thame in your clothes a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 11.
Vpupa, a touchet

b. transf. Some activity reminiscent of the means used by the lapwing to mislead or distract predators.Cf. 18th c. Sc. to hunt the teuchit, to be engaged on some fruitless pursuit. (SND, Teuchit n. 3.) 1658 R. Moray Lett. 308.
I take you not to be very nimble yet at casting of gamonds, for all your tewwhits