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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1956-1966
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¶PLEURAN', ppl.adj. Wailing, whimpering.Ork. 1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 193:
Maybe they hid lippened a boy, an' no a pleuran' thing o' a lass wae a lang face.Ork. 1966:
The gulls are pleuran afore rain.
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