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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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GUTTIE, n.² Also gutty. Gutta-percha, india-rubber, anything wholly or partly made of rubber, e.g. a boy's catapult (Per., Edb., Ayr. 1955), a gym shoe (Lnk. 1954 Sc. Educ. Jnl. (30 July) 509; Ayr. 1955), but esp. a golfball (m. and s.Sc., Uls. 1955). Freq. attrib. with ba (Ib.). See also Gutta.Slk. 1831 Fraser's Mag. (Feb.) 32:
A lang, gutty machine, like a new fashioned ear-trumpet, thrust down my craig [of a stomach pump].Lnk. 1881 A. Wardrop Poems 106:
He's speel'd up tae the dresser heid, To get his gutty ba'.Sc. 1928 B. Darwin Green Memories 14:
He gave old balls, not gutties but featheries, to the little boys to play with in the road.wm.Sc. 1931 Gsw. Herald (14 Feb.):
Weel dae I mind o' my ain feyther bringin' ane o' thae gutty ba's hame wi' him that he had gotten frae either Auld Tam or Alan Robertson.Sc. 1937 Times (22 March) 14:
Three of his [Harry Vardon's] championships were won after the introduction of the rubber-cored ball in 1902, but it was with the gutty . . . that he was supreme.Sc. 1951 Scots Mag. (Oct.) 44:
In thae days the hole was a guid thing shorter, so wi' the gutty twa lang skelps puts you hame.Fif. 1954 St Andrews Cit. (21 Aug.) 8:
Old and rare golf books, clubs and balls; also magazines, annuals, programmes and all publications relating to golf; set of gutty golf ball moulds.Edb. 1985:
She wis chuffed tae the gutties wi her exam results. Edb. 1989 Gordon Legge The Shoe 100:
He was wearing a yellow T-shirt, a black dress jacket, bleached Levi's and his black gutties. m.Sc. 1990 Douglas Lipton in Hamish Whyte and Janice Galloway New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother 70:
An' oot they aw come wi' thir patent-leather shoon an' thir wee Dee-Ems an' thir gutties an' Stert-Rites, ... Dundee 1994 Matthew Fitt in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 174:
The grund wus rimy an ther wus a snell wund blawin bit aa he had oan unnir his lang blek coat wus a whyte t-shirt, a perr o jeans, an mawkit gutties oan his feet.