Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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GUSH, v., n. Sc. usages:
I. n. 1. To have water come into the mouth in anticipation of food, to secrete saliva (Abd.27 1955).Edb. 1845 F. W. Bedford Hist. G. Heriot's Hospital (1859) 347:
He has aye plenty of sock, real palie kind. He makes us a' to gush.
2. Used adv. in phr. ¶to play gush, to bleed copiously.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 69:
O brawly ye could clour a croon, And make a nose play gush, man.
3. Comb.: gush-hole, n., a drainage hole in a wall.Lnk. c.1779 D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 229:
Black hares and white hares . . . de muckle anes loups o'er the dyke and eats a de kail, and de little anes . . . creeps in at our water gush-holes, and does the like.
II. n. = Gushel, n. 1. (Edb. 1920–56, “gen. in a street-gutter”).
