Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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WANDOCHT, n., adj. Also -doucht, -do(u)ght; †-dough; †-dout.
I. n. 1. A feeble, puny, weak creature; a silly, sluggish, worthless person (n.Sc. 1808 Jam.; Rxb. 1825 Jam.).Sc. 1728 in Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) II. 71:
When thou bids the paughty Czar stand yon, The Wandought seems beneath thee on his Throne.Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 16, 157:
Nae bursen bailch, nae wandought or misgrown, . . . Wratacks an' cripples an' cranshaks, An' a' the wandoghts that I ken.Mry. 1810 J. Cock Simple Strains 143:
Altho' the wandought's sib to me, He's gien's a waefu' night o't.s.Sc. 1857 H. S. Riddell Psalms xxxv. 15:
The wandouchts getheret thamesels thegither agayne me.
2. Lack of strength, feebleness (Sc. 1728 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) Gl.); weak bodily parts.Per. c.1710 Private MS.:
I said to him that I had othar things adoue than to sick affter his wark lumes and among his wandochts and I told him that it were best to go himself from one to another of them that he had had to doe with.Sc. 1813 The Scotchman 116:
They stan fu sicker, in spite o their ain wandocht.
II. adj. Feeble, puny, weak, inert; contemptible, worthless (Per., wm.Sc. 1825 Jam.). In later use only liter.Rnf. 1788 E. Picken Poems 160:
But, Sir, my wandocht, rustic Muse, Gane hafflens daiz't an' doitet.Gall. 1796 J. Lauderdale Poems 28:
Then my excuse, Is for to blame that wandout scibe.Ags. 1819 A. Balfour Campbell I. xviii.:
That wandought ne'er-do-weel o' a dominie.Sc. 1836 M. Mackintosh Cottager's Daughter 62:
She was nane o your wandought menseless folk.Sc. 1913 H. P. Cameron Imit. Christ iii. v.:
Luve is tawie an' obeysant tae a' prelates, sairie an' wandocht in its ain een.
