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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1790-1830, 1933

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TILE, n., v. Also tyle. Sc. usages:

I. n. 1. As in Eng. slang, a hat; in Scot. restricted to mean a man's tall silk top-hat, also in comb. tile-hat, id. (Gsw. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang). Gen.Sc.Bnff. 1933 M. Symon Deveron Days 29:
An' foo we blessed the pow o' him Anaith the bauchled tile!

2. A domino (Ags. 1972).

II. v. In ppl.adj. tiled, of a haddock or whiting: dried and cured in the sun, appar. orig. by being laid out on roof-tiles, a spelding, onee a delicacy on the coast about Prestonpans in e.Lth.Sc. c.1790 Lockhart Scott Autobiog.:
Dined at Prestonpans on tiled haddocks.
Sc. 1830 Scott Journal (27 June):
[At Cockenzie]. We had a Tiled whiting, a dish unknown elsewhere.

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