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ˈhellicat, a. and n. Sc.
[app. a fanciful alteration by Scott of halokit (halok); perh. with some notion of hell-cat.]
A. adj. Lightheaded, giddy, extravagant; rompish.
1815Scott Guy M. xxxii, I dare sae now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. 1816― Antiq. xxxix, I want to see what that hellicate quean Jenny Rintherout's doing. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 32 That hellicat..lassie, who had called me a sheep.
B. n. A wicked creature: cf. hell-cat.
1816Scott Bl. Dwarf ix, Let us but get puir Grace out o' that auld hellicat's clutches. 1893Stevenson Catriona 268 It's highly possible the hellicat would try and gar me to marry her when he turned up. |