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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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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: 1879

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ROWSY-TOWSY, adj. Nonce usage = inebriating, intoxicating.Gsw. 1879 A. G. Murdoch Rhymes 94:
O for the whisky stowp — The rowsy-towsy whisky stowp.

[Nonce reduplicative formation poss. based on row, a tumult. Cf. Eng. rowdy-dowdy, rough and noisy and †rousey, disorderly. For the second element cf. towsie, rough, shaggy, rollicking.]

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