Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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†STIBBLART, n. Also -eri, stiblart. A young lad, a youth at the hobbledehoy stage, half-man, half-boy.Abd. 1739 Caled. Mag. (1788) 503:
A stiblart gurk wi' phiz o' yellow In youthit's sappy bud.Abd. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 239:
I kent him just a stibblart lown, Without a shoe.Abd. 1801 W. Beattie Parings (1873) 19:
I was a stibblert at the flail afore Culloden.
