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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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AFFTAKIN(G), -TACKIN', AFFTAKKIN, adj. Waggish, jeering. Gen.Sc.Sh.4 1931:
He wis odious afftakin (= given to ridiculing).Bnff. 1866 Gregor D.Bnff. 7:
A dinna like 'im; he's a mokin' aff-tackin' smatchit.ne.Sc. 1996 Alexander Scott, ed. Neil R. MacCallum Sing Frae the Hert 70:
The pointedness of those poems is due to Murray sharing the humour of the characters he presented, the sly, sardonic, 'afftakkin' wit, the joke with a sting in its tail. Abd. 1998 Sheena Blackhall The Bonsai Grower 51:
He wis an aff-takkin loon, as coorse a vratch as Broon Hoolet wis hersel. Fegs, some things ran in the faimly, like pirnie-taes, thocht Maisie. Abd.2 1931:
A wat he's an afftaking craitur.Lnl.1 1930:
A cuisin o' mine wis kent fae 'is earliest days fur 'is afftakin' weys.Arg.1 1931:
Yon fellow thinks he's witty, but he's witty nane; he's jist an afftakin neer-do-weel for aa his cluvverness.e.Dmf.2 1931:
Afftaking ways.
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