Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1772, 1828-1921
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HINGER, n. Also henger, hingger, hingar. Sc. forms and usages = Eng. hanger. [′hɪŋər]
1. pl. Hangings; (bed) curtains (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl., hengers; ‡Sh., Abd., Bwk. 1957).Slg. 1772 Edb. Ev. Courant (3 Aug.):
A Four-wheel'd Chaise, with four glasses and silk hingers.Sc. 1828 P. Buchan Ballads I. 50:
I'll put gowd hingers roun' your cage, And siller roun' your wa'.Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond B. Bowden (1922) 65:
Some o' that artifeeshal muzzlin for hingers to the windows.Sh. 1899 Shetland News (21 Jan.):
Shü cam but ower da fluer carryin ane o' da bed hinggers apon her airm.
2. Dangling ornaments on a horse's harness (m.Lth.1 1957).
3. Combs.: ¶(1) hingars-at-lugs, earrings; (2) hinger-in, one who perseveres, a conscientious hard-working person (Cai., ne.Sc., Ags., m.Lth., Peb., Kcb. 1957). Cf. hing in s.v. Hing, I. 7. (4).(1) Abd. 1875 G. Macdonald Malcolm xli:
Bein' a jeedge o' hingars-at-lugs an' sic vainities.(2) Dmf. 1914 J. L. Waugh Cracks wi' R. Doo 88:
“Robert”, I've often said to mysel', “dinna be a hanger-on; be a hinger-in”, and a hinger-in I've been.
4. In Mining: the rock overlying the coal-seam, cf. Eng. hanger, id. (Fif. 1975). Dmf. 1921 T. G. Gracie Songs 49:
An' then the ruif is far owre low, wi' the hinger hingin' doon.
