Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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‡HOIT, n.3 Also hott (Jak.). Used gen. with an adj. complement, ill-, etc.: a mood, temper, humour, condition, appearance, usu. strange or bad (‡Sh. 1957).Sh. 1897 Shetland News (30 Oct.):
Weel dan, why spaeks doo laek yon? Sibbie axed wi a kind ill hoit apon her.Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928):
Der'r . . . a hoit (hott) upo dee de day, you are behaving queerly to-day . . . he had a wheer hoit (hott) upon him, he was looking odd. Most freq. found in ppl.adj. hoited, -id, -et, †hotted, in comb. with weel- or ill- = in a thriving, sickly or deformed condition, esp. with regard to physical appearance or deportment (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928)).Sh. 1897 Shetland News (4 Dec.):
He's [a foal] a weel-hoited craeter, an' weel at himsel'.Ib. (29 May):
Dey wir maistly a' sair illhoited, an' nae winder, whin der midders wis just skin an' bane.
