Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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†TADY, n. The green glass stopper in the neck of old-fashioned ginger-beer bottles, freq. used by children as a marble (Ayr. c.1920). Also tady-tap, a ginger-beer bottle(Id.).
