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▪ I. scowder, n. Sc.|ˈskaʊdə(r)|
Forms: 8 scowder, scouder, 9 scowdher, scouther.
[f. the vb.]
1. Scorching, slight burning
a1774Fergusson Election Poems (1845) 40 Till, in a birn, beneath the crook Theyre sengit wi' a scowder, To death that day. 1793T. Scott Poems 358 (E.D.D.) Love has gie'n his heart a scouder. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf vii, If things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I se gie you a scouther, if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes.
2. Anglo-Irish. (See quot.) lit. and fig.
1830–2W. Carleton Traits Ir. Peas. (1844) II. 131 ‘Franky,’ they would say, ‘is no finished priest in the larnin'; he's but a scowdher’. Now a scowdher is an oaten cake laid upon a pair of tongs placed over the..embers... In a few minutes the side first laid down is scorched: it is then turned, and the other side is also scorched.
▪ II. scowder, v. Sc.|ˈskaʊdə(r)|
Forms: 6 skolder, skowder, 7 scouther, 8 scouder, 7– scowther, scowder.
[Of obscure origin: with the 16th c. form skolder cf. the synonymous scalder v.]
a. trans. To scorch, burn slightly.
b. intr. To undergo scorching. Hence ˈscowdered ppl. a., scorched; also see quot. 1781. ˈscowdering ppl. a., scorching; also (of cold, etc.) withering, blighting.
1508Dunbar Flyting 122 Fy! skolderit skyn, thow art bot skyre and skrumple. Ibid. 171. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 534 His skowdrit skyn wes blak as ony ruke. 1606W. Birnie Kirk Buriall (1833) 4 By scowdring their skins in the Sunne. 1672Pasquil on Stair Family in Bk. Scotish Pasquils (1868) 183 On shoulder clap made her Mess James embrace, And lick the dreepings of his scouther'd face. a1774Fergusson Farmer's Ingle viii. Poems (1800) 134 For weel she trows,..That kye hae tint their milk wi' evil eie, And corn been scowder'd on the glowin kill. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' x, Gude scoudered bannocks. 1781Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss., Scowder'd, over-heated with working. 1799J. Struthers Poet. Wks. (1850) II. 202 Cauld winter wi' his scowdering eye. 1831S. E. Ferrier Destiny I. xx, Your cook's not a good hare-dresser... After all, I believe it's only a little scowthered. 1856G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 54 We'll..send them [sc. witches] hame, To scouther forever in h―'s blue flame! 1875Stevenson Lett. (1899) I. 109 The snell an' scowtherin' norther blaw Frae blae Brunteelan'. |
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