Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1894
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BRAINISH, adj. “Wandering in the mind” (Ags. c.1927 (per Bnff.9); Ags.2, Fif.10 1935). N.E.D. gives it meaning headstrong, passionate, but now obs. or arch. in Eng.Ags.(D) 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) iv.:
She was brainish a' the time.
