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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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VAUDIE, adj. Also va(u)dy; voudie; and ne.Sc. forms wad(d)ie, wady. Proud, vain, ostentatious, showing off (Abd. 1808 Jam.); elated, in high spirits, “cock-a-hoop”, frisky, gay, merry (Mry. 1925); “great or uncommon”, impressive (Ags. 1808 Jam.); “gay, showy” (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.). Now only liter.Abd. 1733 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd (1765) 38:
I might be wady, For getting sic a lusty laddie.Abd. a.1745 Hogg Jacobite Relics (1821) II. 70:
Thus must we be sad, whilst the traitors are vaudie, Till we get a sight of our ain bonny laddie.Slg. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 15:
To ken ye're weel, it maks me waddie.Rxb. 1808 A. Scott Poems 222:
In blue worset boots that my auld mither span, I've aft been fu' vaudy sin' I was a man.Ags. 1818 W. Gardiner Poems 52:
There's Roasten Beef in London Town For lords an' lairds sae voudie.Bnff. 1852 A. Harper Solitary Hours 55:
A sturdy vaudie steed seem'd he, And glitt'rin' black like ebony.Per. 1898 C. Spence Poems 72:
Now I got new trews and coat, And stalked about in trappings vaudie.Sc. 1928 J. Bridie Sunlight Sonata (1932) 103:
Deil hain us! A vaudie bit smatchet [sc. the Deadly Sin Superbia].
