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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

FOUL, n.2 The skin.Sc. 1706 Sc. Antiquary XII. 103:
They need not be flied, let us but ance see aff gate and Silder for Wark, and we shall ply our Gardes and Fingers or the foul pair aff.

[The word is a pseudo-ne.Sc. form of hool, Huil, q.v., as if *whool. See P.L.D. § 134.]

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