An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 864
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 864
_Douglas._
_To_ TARY, _v. a._ To distress.
_Wyntown._
Su. G. _targ-a_, lacerare.
~Tarye~, _s._ Vexation.
_Maitland P._
TAR-LEATHER, _s._ A strong slip of a hide, salted and hung, used for uniting the staves of a flail, S. B. perh. from Isl. _tarf-r_, taurus, q. a _bulls_ hide.
TARLIES, _s._ A lattice, S. _tirless_.
Fr. _treillis_.
_Hist. Ja. s.e.xt._
TARLOCH, _s._ Perhaps, a begging friar.
A. S. _thearflic_, poor.
_Philotus._
TARLOCH, _adj._ Slow at meat, squeamish, Clydes.
V. ~Tarrow~.
TARRY-FINGERED, _adj._ Light-fingered, S.
From _tarry_, _adj._ belonging to tar.
_To_ TARROW, _v. n._
1. To delay.
_Henrysone._
2. To haggle in a bargain.
_Bann. P._
3. To feel reluctance.
_Ross._
4. To complain, Clydes.
A. S. _teor-ian_, to fail, to tarry.
TARTAN, _s._ Cloth checkered with stripes of various colours, S.
_Chr. S. P._
Fr. _tiretaine_, linsey-woolsey.
~Tartan~, _adj._ Of or belonging to tartan, S.
_Ritson._
~Tartan-purry~, _s._ A pudding of red colewort mixed with oat-meal.
_Forbes._
_Tartan_, q. parti-coloured colewort, and Teut. _purreye_, jus, sive cremor pisorum.
_To_ TARTLE _at ane_, _v. n._
1. To view as not recognising with certainty, Loth. Perths.
2. To boggle, Loth.
3. To hesitate as to a bargain.
_Ramsay._
4. To scruple.
_Cleland._
Perh. allied to Isl. _tortallit_, difficult to reckon.
TARTUFFISH, _adj._ Sulky, stubborn, Renfrews.
Fr. _tortu_, perverse; or _tartuffe_, a hypocrite; _tartuffi-er_, to a.s.sume a false appearance.