Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1742-1788
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CAPPIT, Cappid, adj. Also caput.
†1. “Crabbed, ill-humoured, peevish” (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.).Sc. 1755 J. Fleming Robert Adam (1962) 173:
Allan [Ramsay] is a caput, tyrannical body in his own house.Abd.(D) 1742 R. Forbes Ajax his Speech in Sc. Poems (1767) 7:
There fight your fill, since ye are grown Sae unco' crous an' cappit.Rnf. 1788 E. Picken Poems, etc. 65:
An' aft has gart the cappit chiel Break through the laws.
2. “Fickle; flighty; whimsical” (Sc. 1911 S.D.D., cappid). Not known to our correspondents.
[O.Sc. cappit, capped, peevish, ill-humoured, crabbed, earliest quot. a.1585 (D.O.S.T.); Mid.Eng. coppid, c.1449, prob. from cop, head.]
