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what reck, whatreck, interrog. phr. (adv.) Sc.
Also 6 quhat ra(c)k, quhattrak, quattrack, 9 foutrack.
[f. what a.1 (13 b) + reck n.1 2.]
What matter? what does it matter? Also parenthetically as adv.: For all that, nevertheless.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxviii. 30 Thocht a man haif a brokin bak, Haif he a gude crafty telȝour, quhattrak, That can it cuver with craftis slie. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 3292 The Mers sould find me beif and kaill. Quhat rak of bread! a1586Montgomerie Poems (S.T.S.) 280 ‘And thow steill a cow, cairle, thair they will hang the.’ ‘Quattrack, Lord, of that? For anis mon I die.’ 1787Burns When Guilford good our Pilot stood ii, But yet, whatreck, he, at Quebec, Montgomery-like did fa', man. 1808A. Scott Poems 114 Yet they whatreck in population spread. 1825Jamieson s.v. Foutrack, One, who hears any unexpected news, exclaims, Foutrack! i.e., Indeed! Is it really as you say? 1847J. Halliday Rustic Bard 165 But yet, what reck?
So whatrecks (6 quhatt rax, 9 Sc. fatrecks) [what adv. (20) + reck v. 8 b] in same sense.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 1540 (Bann. MS.) Now quhill the king is sound sleipand, Quhatt rax to steill his box? 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 108 Her mill into some hole had fawn Whatrecks, quoth she, let it be gawn. 1804W. Tarras Poems 12 ‘Fatrecks!’ quo' Will, ‘it needs nae badder.’ |