Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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HORRID, adj., adv. Used in Sc. with merely intensive force, not necessarily to denote disapproval as in Eng. Cf. Awfu', Odious.
I. adj. Extraordinary, high (of price) (I.Sc. 1957).Sh. 1898 Shetland News (29 Oct.):
Da sheep an' lambs ir sellin' weel, some o' dem gaun at horrid prices.
II. adv. Extremely, specially (I.Sc., Kcb. 1957). Also in mod. Eng. slang.Ayr. 1790 J. Fisher Poems 66:
My life's near done — I'm horrid ill.Gall. 1897 Trans. Dmf. & Gall. Antiq. Soc. 11:
Crops are “horrid geud”, and lasses “horrid bonny”.Kcb. 1911 G. M. Gordon Clay Biggin' 51:
An odious fine couple they are tae . . . juist horrid kind folk an' real gentry a' ower.
Hence horridly, id. (Gall. 1912 Scotsman (31 Jan.)).Sc. a.1856 G. Outram Lyrics (1874) 109:
I was horridly weel — my banes hard as steel.
