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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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KIRRIE DUMPLIN, n.comb. A local name for the flower cluster of the Primula denticulata (Ags., Per. 1960; Per. 1990s).Ags. 1950 People's Jnl. (6 May):
Syne, I telt them aboot the ither floo'ers I was fond o' — aipple-ringie, fleechie-flechies, shakky-tremblies and Kirrie dumplins.Ags. 1968 William Allen Illsley ed. The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: The county of Angus (1977) 455:
'Carmyllie Dumplings' is occasionally applied to the Japanese Primula (Primula Japonica denticulata) though 'Kirrie Dumplings' is the more common local name. Dundee 1991 W. N. Herbert in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 178:
an hoodie craws, an doos, an speugies,
an heckil-breistit thrushis, an noo
Eh'm boakin flooers: barkan doaggies
an kirrie-dumplins an gillyflooers -
waash yir hauns, waash yir hauns

[An abbrev. form of the place-name Kirriemuir, where they appear to be commonly grown, + dumpling, from the rounded shape.]

Kirrie Dumplin n. comb.

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