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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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NEXT, adj., adv. Also nixt; neext (m.Lth. 1885 J. Strathesk More Bits 122; Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 23). Sc. forms and usages. See also Neist.

Sc. form of Eng. next.m.Sc. 1994 Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay Forever Yours, Marie-Lou 11:
... it's no this moarnin ah'm gaunnae murder yir mither! Ah've tellt the newspapers tae haud the front page fur nixt week!em.Sc. 2000 James Robertson The Fanatic 182:
Did ye niver see the wee deevilock face in the wuid o't, that would change frae a grin tae a girn frae ae minute tae the nixt?

Sc. usages:

1. With days of the week or months of the year: the next but one, the one succeeding the first to come, gen. contrasted with First, q.v., or this — (comin), e.g. a speaker on Monday, 10 August 1964, will say Friday first to indicate 14 August and Friday next to indicate 21st August, or this October (comin) for October, 1964 and next October for October, 1965. Gen.Sc. The St. Eng. usage is however also in gen. currency and only the context will sometimes determine the exact meaning.Kcd. 1700 G. A. Henderson Kirk of St. Ternan (1962) 104:
To set up weekly exercises in their respective parochin, which he intended, God willing, to begin nixt Wednesday come eight days.Sc. 1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 60:
Scots often use next as if they thought it came after the nearest and are shy of saying Monday next when they mean the nearest Monday; instead they say Monday first which means the same thing.Sc. 1799 Gsw. Courier (Thurs. 11 July):
On Saturday first will be published . . . The Jolly Beggars, a Cantata by Robert Burns; and on Saturday next will be published The Kirk's Alarm.Per. 1918 J. Meikle Old Session Bk. 187:
The common Scotticism by which in certain circumstances “next” does not mean “the nearest,” but is short for some such phrase as “not the nearest but the next thereafter”.Sc. 1929 R. Masson Use of Eng. 42:
Mr. Grey . . . is going through to Glasgow for a few days, either Friday of this week or next Friday.

2. Phr. and Deriv.: (1) next-to-come, of a day, time, meeting, etc.: immediately following. Obs. in Eng. from 15th c.; (2) nextan (Abd. 1828 P. Buchan Ballads 98), -en, -in, next. Only in ballads, the additional syllable being metri causa, see Neist, adj.Sc. 1707 Acts Parl. Scot. XI. 380:
It carried Approve of the Act adjourning the Session to the fourth of February next to come.Sc. 1737 Acts Gen. Assembly (23 May):
The second Wednesdays of August, November and March next to come.(2) Sc. a.1783 Child Waters in Child Ballads No. 63 B. viii.:
The nextin stap the lady stappit, The water came til her middle.Sc. c.1828 Fause Lover in Child Ballads No. 218 A. xi.:
The next an town that they came till.