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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

ANGLEBERRY, n. (See quots.)Sc. 1740 Caled. Mercury (3 July):
A Black-brown Mare . . . two or three Angle berries on her Belly.Sc. 1825 Jam.2:
Angle-berry. A fleshy excrescence, resembling a very large hautboy strawberry, often found growing on the feet of sheep, cattle, etc.sm.Sc. 1988 W. A. D. and D. Riach A Galloway Glossary :
angle-berry a growth on an animal (usually on teat or belly).Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. 42:
A warty excrescence on cattle or sheep.Dmf. 1990s:
She was a bonny mare but had an ugly angleberry hangin doon fae her chest atween her legs, a reid lumpy growth, that is.Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn. 2:
Angle-berries, large hanging warts on a horse, sometimes about its mouth.

[Perhaps a variant of Eng. anbury; thus the first part may be from O.E. ang-, pain, suffering; for -berry cf. strawberry-mark, a birth-mark or nævus resembling a strawberry. Montgomerie (end of 16th cent.) has in the Flyting, l. 306 (S.T.S.): “Ouergane all with angleberries, as thou growes ald.” See also Inberry.]

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