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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1928
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‡STRIBBLY, adj. Of hair: straggly, loose and trailing (Bnff., Abd., Kcd. 1971).Abd. 1928 N. Shepherd Quarry Wood i.:
Her hair was a good sensible drab . . . and she had a wicked habit of sucking one or another of its stribbly ends.
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"Stribbly adj.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 18 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/stribbly>
