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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

†KEDGE, adj. Lively, eager, excessively friendly. Also in e.Ang. dial.Dmf. 1834 Carlyle in Froude Early Life (1882) II. 430:
Heraud . . . is exceedingly kedge about me, anxious beyond measure for golden opinions of his God-dedicated Epic.

[Appar. a reduced form of kedgy, Cadgy, q.v.]

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