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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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PRUTE, int. An exclamation of scorn or defiance, pooh-pooh! in forms prute no!, prutish! pruts!Lnk. a.1779 D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 150, I. 179:
If they had tell'd me tuts, or prute-no, I laid them o'er my knee, and a com'd crack for crack o'er their hurdies . . . Prutish quo' Donald it's no worth a straw.Sc. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet Letter xii.:
Truts! pruts! nonsense! but I'se no refuse, trusting ye can afford it.

[Echoic.]

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