Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1722-1875
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†KEYTCH, v., n. Also ke(i)tch, keach, kietch, ky(t)ch, and, by confusion with Kilch, keiltch. [kəitʃ, kɛtʃ]
I. v. To pitch, toss, to toss to and fro (Sc. 1808 Jam.); to jerk, jog with the elbow; to heave or hitch up, as a load on the back (Slk. 1825 Jam.); to overturn, upset (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.).Sc. 1722 Ramsay Poems (1877) II. 379:
May I be jyb'd by great an' sma', And kytch'd like ony tennis-ba'.Sc. 1792 “Juvenis Scoticus” Melpomene 50:
To keitch awa' the drumly mud, An' skum the fro' aff life's wild flood.Peb. 1793 R. Brown Carlop Green (1817) 175:
[She] prances Jock 'maist aff her back, Kytch'd till her fits subside.Sc. 1812 The Scotchman 47:
Ilka chiel kycht the broken piece [of cake] scornfulie out o his gate, an walet a hale ane.Abd. 1861 J. Grant Legends of Mar 226:
Get doon aff the beast, ye auld deevil, or I'll ketch ye into the midden.Ayr. a.1875 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage (1892) 188:
Kytching his pack, our Troker said . . .
II. n. A toss, jerk, heave; an upward shove, hitch up (Cld. 1880 Jam.).Sc. 1736 Pilulae Spleneticae 14:
Like a cow, who lets down her milk plentifully till near the hinder end and then with a ketch of her foot overturns the cog.Ayr. 1786 Merry Muses (1911) 132:
Its weel ken'd that at her gyvil [Egerton Version Ye hae gi'en mony a kytch and kyvil], Ye've dune what time will soon unravel.Sc. 1824 Hogg Justified Sinner (1874) 507:
One ketch with thy foot, or toss with thy finger, shall throw him from thy sight into the foldings of the cloud.Sc. 1844 Sc. Ballads (Whitelaw 1874) 36:
And every auld wife that's sae jealous o' her dochter, May she get a good keach i' the creel.m.Lth. 1857 Misty Morning 22:
He gied his feet a great kick oot, an' his back a kietch up, an' sent the wean into the barrel.Slk. 1875 Border Treasury (1 May) 453:
Aw b'leeve ye've gien me some unco ketches, callants! Ye sud mind fock canna stand sic ruggin' aboot after they turn auld.