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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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INSTEID, adv. Also -steed, -stid, and reduced forms i stead, -ste(e)d (Rxb. 1958; Sh., Ags., Fif., Edb., Gsw., Ayr., Dmf., Rxb. 2000s). Sc. forms of Eng. instead, mostly s. of Forth. See P.L.D. § 41. [ɪ(n)′stid]Fif. 1859 P. Landreth Joseph Spindle (1911) 56:
Shavin' on the Sabbath mornin' insteed o' on the Saturday nicht.Hdg. 1876 J. Teenan Song & Satire 21:
Insteed o' ga'en up, a' the foul reek comes doun, The queer lums o' Clatterchuckle.Ork. 1880 Dennison Sketch-Bk. 119:
His feet war unco' like the Trow's, Wi' jows o' seut i'sted o' clows.Ags. 1889 Barrie W. in Thrums ii.:
Ye mean 'at the lad Wilkie 'll be to bide wi' the lawyer i'stead o' wi' Sam'l Duthie?n.Sc. 1919 M. Maclean Croft & Clachan 32:
If Jeemuck Sandison hed leev'd It's me he wid hae taen insteid!Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 11:
A cood heh fund eet i ma hert ti heh stoppeet an gane in for a dook, isteed, i the cuill, silver Teiot. Dmf. 1979 Ron Butlin in Joy Hendry Chapman 23-4 (1985) 35:
- But shaw's insteid the mirror o yer saul
that yet can haud the haill warld an mair
in image o yer love fer ither men
fair ootbleezin thon electric glare. m.Sc. 1986 William Montgomerie in Joy Hendry Chapman 46 5:
"A'm comin insteed," said Jimmy Cann one of whose minor fault [sic] was that he said unnecessary things. m.Sc. 1994 Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay Forever Yours, Marie-Lou 14:
If it's no the peanut butter thit's coastin mair, it's the meat's noo 69 cents a pund instid ae 49; and if it's no that it's somethin else is dearer! em.Sc. 2000 James Robertson The Fanatic 95:
'... The bishop was fair dementit atween want o sleep and fear o bein murdered in his bed. Eftir the first couple o nichts he gaed up tae the castle and lodged there insteid. ...'