Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1733, 1801-1832
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†OUTGIE, n., v. Also utgie (Sc. 1825 Jam.). Sc. form and usage of Eng. outgive. Payment, disbursement, expenditure. Also in vbl.n. outgivin(g). [′utgi]Peb. 1733 C. B. Gunn Linton Church (1912) 130:
The articles of his outgivings . . . did fully clear and extinguish said charge.Sc. 1801 Edb. Weekly Jnl. (14 Jan.) 14:
The Incorporation of Tailors in Paisley . . . have distributed to the poor of that place, 71 l. Sterling above their ordinary outgivings to their own poor.Lnk. a.1832 W. Watt Poems (1860) 228:
I grant, your outgi'e is na sma'.
