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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

BELGOIT, n. A nickname for a junior pupil at Edinburgh Royal High School. Obs.Sc. 1822 Scots Mag. (Feb.) 228:
If you are not content to rank in understanding beneath the very “Belgoits” of the High-school forms, you will have no difficulty whatever in following the Doctor through this original . . . on “Moods and Tenses”.

[The first element is obscure; the second is a variant of Get, n., 4.]

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