Lexicographical Neighbors of Shilpit
Literary usage of Shilpit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"SCOTT : Waver- According to Jamieson, shilpit is used to designate cars of corn
that are not well filled. He derives it from the German ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"According to Jamieson, shilpit is used to designate cars of com that are not well
filled. He derives it from the German ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"In like manner one sense of shilpit in Roxb. is " cold and comfortless, ...
Sherry's but shilpit drink, and a gill's a sma' mea* sure for twa gentlemen to ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... shilpit, adj., because, although they might be viewed as the «une, only used
with considerable obliquity. I hesitate because of their apparent affinity ..."
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