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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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MISLUSHIOUS, adj. Also mislushios. Malicious, ill-intentioned.Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 81:
Hit Geordy a mislushios Rap And brake the Brig o's Neese.Lnk. 1835 W. Watt Poems (1860) 265:
Till noddles to their rest are sent By the mislushious liquor.Edb. 1897 W. Beatty Secretar 256:
Tak that, ye mislushious jaude ye.Sc.(E) 1913 H. P. Cameron Imit. Christ iii. xxxix.:
Bot the auld fae, wha gainstauns a' whilk is guid, quats-na till temp, bot day an' nicht shuttles his mislushious blocks.Ags. 1993 Mary McIntosh in Joy Hendry Chapman 74-5 113:
"Halt that an hap yersel up." He wis mislushious in his thrawness.
