Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶WAE-WORTH, adj. “Deserving to experience sorrow or suffering ”(Bwk. a.1838 Jam. MSS. X. 343, a wae-worth rascal).
[Prob. a variant form of Eng. wayward, altered and defined through association with Wae, n., and wae worth s.v. 6.]
