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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1979-1991
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CROOD, v.2, n.2 Gen.Sc. form of Eng. crowd, v., n. See P.L.D. §38.1. The form crud occurs in Dundee Kirk Session Records (6 May, 1709). [krud]Sc. 1991 Roderick Watson in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 102:
A bit houghmagandie was aa it was.
(Troy was an awfu place for that
aabody kent it, it was even expeckit,
tho nae by the Greeks at the city waas
- a gey conventional crood they were.)ne.Sc. 1979 Alastair Mackie in Joy Hendry Chapman 23-4 (1985) 65:
The holiday croods on the beach sit oot
this sun-stairved aifterneen and the bairns bawl
fae the sea edge.
