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First published 2005 (SND, online supplement).
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FUFTY, num. adj., n. (Ags., Edb. 2000s). Gsw. 1915 Ian Hay The First Hundred Thousand 1985 pp (52-3) :
"At yon three Gairman spies, gaun' up a close for tae despatch some wireless telegraphy — fufty roonds — fire!" Dundee 1996 W. N. Herbert Cabaret McGonagall 21:
... demarkin whit cannot be told
wi fufty foot:
yir scream thi gleid that's niver sold,
yir aural loot? Dundee 2000 Matthew Fitt But n Ben A-Go-Go 5:
A quarter mile doon, the wersh blinterin sun forced itsel in throu the UV filter gless at the corridor heid, illuminatin the faces an keek panels o the first fufty Omegas.
