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Quotation dates: 1822-1833, 1894
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†FOUT, v., n.2
I. v. To jerk, make sudden forcible movements.Ags. 1822 A. Balfour Farmers' Three Daughters I. 67:
She'll . . . fout wi' her feet, an' scart wi' her hands.Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) xvi.:
She put back her lugs an skirled like a fountin' [sic] mule at Sandy.
II. n. A jerk, a smart tug.Ags. 1833 J. Sands Poems 120:
Fan they drew't [theatre-curtain] up wi' a fout, You'd thought the house's end was out.
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