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† wilrone Sc. Obs.
Also wolroun, -ron(n).
[? f. ON. vilr will a. + runi boar.]
A wild boar.
Used chiefly as a term of abuse.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 90 A waistit wolroun. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 432 Wnhonest wayis all, wolronn, that thou wirkis. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S) xxxiv. 106 The bich the curtyk fannis; The wolf the wilrone vsis. a1568Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 385 This wyld wilroun wich thame widlit sa and wareit. a1851in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scot. (1870) 70 In place o' her ain bonny bairn, she fand a withered wolron. |