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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

AFTTIMES, adv. Oft-times. Chiefly poetical. Gen.Sc.Sc. a.1706 Watson (ed.) Choice Collection, Mare of Collingtoun (1869) 60:
He fed me . . . aft-times with Bread and Ale.Sc. 1737 A. Ramsay Proverbs:
Afttimes the cautioner pays the debt.Sc. [1825] J. Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) I. 68:
Thae wee black fearsome lochs that aft-times gurgle in their sullen sleep.Edb. 1773 R. Fergusson Auld Reikie, Poems (1925) 76:
At night the macaroni drunk, In pools or gutters aftimes sunk.Hdg. 1892 J. Lumsden Sheephead, etc. 98:
Aftimes of a Sunday.Ayr. 1789 D. Sillar Poems 39:
I've seen chiels aft-times, i' their daffin, Sit down to tak a social chappin.

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