Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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‡DROGGET, Droggat, n. Also †droget, -git, drowget (Ags. 1853 W. Blair Aberbrothock 69). See also Drogy. Sc. forms and usages of Eng. drugget, a coarse woollen mixture material (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 186). Also used attrib. = made of drogget, and fig.Sc. 1707 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1880) 431:
That fingrams, plaidings, searges and drogets, made for export, may be woven of one sort of wool.Edb. 1792 Auld Handsel Monday 18:
Haste ye, bring My braw new droggit gown.Bwk. 1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes 83:
Huzzies . . . wha in my younger days wad hae been glad . . . o' hame-made stuff, or drogget.Arg.1 1937:
The country lasses used tae come tae toon on a Fair Day or the Sabbath wi bare airms an' droggat short goons.Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
Of the off-spring of mixed marriages it is sometimes said, “They're drogget, an' that's the worst of all cloth.”
Phr.: to speak drugget, to speak a mixture of the vernacular and St.Eng. (Uls. 1853–62 Uls. Jnl. Arch. V. 105).
Comb.: drugget (-it) scone, an oatmeal and potato scone (Dmf. 1925 W. A. Scott in Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 24; Dmf. 1950 (per Fif.17)).Lnk. 1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 27:
There were scons wi' currants in them, drappit scons, scalded scons, tattie scons, druggit scons, barley scons, and pease-meal bannocks.
