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ˈthoughty, a. Obs. exc. Sc.
Forms: see thought1.
[f. as prec. + -y.]
Given to thought, thoughtful. a. Heedful, attentive, intent. †b. Pensive, melancholy, anxious.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 706 Besy..Til infourme ȝu in cheryte, And in sawle-hele thochty to be. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. ix. (Skeat) l. 21 Euer is their contemplacion in ful of thoughty study to plesaunce. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 80 Who so þat thoghty is, is wo-be-gon. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xvi. 1608 As he past apon a day In til huntynge..On his gamyn al thouchty. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxl. (1869) 73, I was ther of wunderliche abashed and thouhti. 1823Corbett Petticoat T. II. 110 (Jam.) Fanny is two years younger than I am, and not so thoughty, as Philip says.
Hence † ˈthoughtiness, melancholy, pensiveness.
1707J. Nimmo Narr. (1889) 4 My father was resolved to use authoretie qeh was not pleasing to me and increased my thoghtiness. |