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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BOUK, Buik, Book, Bouck, Buck, n.² The body of a person or bird; the carcase of an animal. Gen.Sc. Dim. buckie. Now only Sc. and dial. according to N.E.D. [buk Sc., but Abd. + bjuk]Sh.(D) 1922 J. Inkster Mansie's Röd 128:
Da sun wis dat wye i' ma een, 'at alto' I skyl'd wi' me haand, I could mak' oot naethin bit da book o' a man gaein ower da fit o' da müdow.Mry. 1690 W. Cramond Court Bks. Regality of Grant (1897) 11:
Ane fresh mutton bouk.Abd.(D) 1785 R. Forbes Ulysses' Answer in Sc. Poems 28:
Sair smear'd wi' gutters was his buik.m.Lth. 1787 W. Taylor Poems 91:
Robie charg'd his gun wi' slugs To spice her buckie. m.Lth. 1842 Children in Mines Report II. 454:
The whole buck or sheep could have been bought when I first wrought for 5s.Edb. 1773 R. Fergusson Sc. Poems (1925) 24:
But mergh, alas! to disengage Your bonny bouck frae fettering cage, Your free-born bosom beats in vain For darling liberty again.Hdg. 1902 J. Lumsden Toorle, etc. 70:
Atweel! atweel! bouks, hides, an' horns, an' a'! The yearth spleets wide, and Tophet gapes for me!Rxb. 1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 84:
For i' my bouk I bear the bluid O' whilk my country may be proud.