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Quotation dates: 1803, 1896
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†GIFTIE, -Y, adj. Prolific, of good yield. Also in Nhb. dial.Rxb. 1803 Farmer's Mag. (Nov.) 478:
The Wheats, both winter and spring, prove very gifty, and of fine quality; but potatoes are much below an average.Hdg. 1896 J. Lumsden Battle of Dunbar 18:
A giftie crap sure Ruin's threshin'.
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