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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1803, 1901
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BEMANG, v. “To hurt, to injure; to overpower” (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.). Examples of pa.p. only to be found. In sense of overpower, not known to our correspondents.Sc. 1803 Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border III. 363:
To his dore-cheik I keipt the cleik; The carle was sair bemangit.Ags. 1901 W. J. Milne Reminisc. of an Old Boy, App. 293:
Puir Rob, sair bemang'd i' the cluiks o' that crew, Had tae promise compliance.
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