An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 971

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language



An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 971


1. A twig, S.


_Burns._


2. A wand, a small switch, S.


Dan. _vigre_, vimen; _vig-er_, to be pliant.


WICKET, _s._ The back-door of a barn, Ang.


Belg. _wicket_, portula, Fr. _guichet_.


WIDDEN-DREME, WINDREM, WIDDRIM, _s._ _In a widden-dream_, or _windream_, all of a sudden; also, in a state of confusion, S. B.


_Pop. Ball._


A. S. _woda-dream_, furor, madness.


WIDDERSINNIS, WEDDERSHYNNYS, WIDDERSINS, WIDDERSHINS, WITHERSHINS, WODERSHINS, _adv._ The contrary way, contrary to the course of the sun, S.


_Douglas._


A. S. _wither_, contra, _sunne_, sol; or rather, Teut. _weder-sins_, contrario modo.


WIDDIE, WIDDY, _s._


1. A rope made of twigs of willow; used to denote a halter, S.


_Lyndsay._


2. The term is vulgarly understood in S. as if it denoted the gallows itself.


3. A twig, having several smaller shoots branching out from it; which being plaited together, it is used as a whip, the single grain serving for a handle, Caithn.


Su. G. _widia_, vimen, from _wide_, salix; A. S. _withig_, id.


~Widdifow~, ~Viddiful~, _s._


1. Properly, one who deserves to _fill_ a _widdie_ or halter, S.


_Lyndsay._


2. In pl. equivalent to _brave boys_, in sea language.


_Compl. S._


3. A romp, S.


~Widdifow~, _adj._ Wrathful, S. A. and O.


_Burns._


_To_ WIDDILL, _v. n._ p.r.o.n. _wuddil_.


1. Generally used in connexion with some other _v._; as, _to widdil and ban_, _to widdil and flyte_, &c., S.


_Montgomerie._


2. To wriggle or waddle, S.


3. _v. a._ To introduce by shifting motion, or (metaph.) by circuitous courses, S.


_Cleland._


Germ. _wedel-n_, caudam mot.i.tare.


~Widdle~, _s._


1. Wriggling motion, S.


2. Metaph. struggle or bustle, S.


_Burns._


WIDDRIM, _s._


V. ~Widdendreme~.


WYDE, _s._ Dress.


V. ~Gide~.


WIDE-GAB, _s._ The fishing frog, Shetl.


* WIDOW, _s._ A widower, S.


_Rutherford._


WIE, _adj._ Little.







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