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partan Sc. and north. dial.|ˈpɑːtən|
Also 6 partane, pertane, 7–9 parten, 9 partin, parton.
[app. from Celtic: in Gael. partan, Manx partan, Ir. partón, portán crab; ulterior history unknown.]
1. A crab; esp. the common crab, Cancer pagurus.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. i. 813 In to þe watyr of Ganges..wormys als of hugis strenythe, Lyk to partanys heyr ar þa, And on þar cors has armys twa. 1549Compl. Scot. xix. 159 Plutarque rehersis ane exempil of the partan, quhilk repreuit ane of hyr ȝong partans, be cause the ȝong partan vald nocht gang euyn furtht, bot rather sche ȝeid crukit, bakuart, and on syd. 1693Wallace Descr. Orkney Isl. ii. 14 Lobsters, Partens, Mussels. 1710Sibbald Fife ii. ii. [iii.] 55 Cancer marinus Vulgaris, the Common Sea-Crab; our Fishers call it a Partan. 1816Scott Antiq. xi, A half-a-dozen o' partans to make the sauce. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 75 Progressing, as the partan..is said to do, backwards.
b. The shore crab, Carcinus mœnas.
1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. MS. add. (C.) (E.D.D.), Partan, a kind of small crab..not eaten, as it is said to be poisonous. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Parten, the shore crab, Carcinus mœnas.
2. fig. An ill-favoured or ill-natured person.
1896Barrie Tommy iv. 45 Tak' that, you glowering partan! 1899Crockett A. Mark xx. 163 A silly partan o' a bairn like this.
3. attrib. and Comb. partan-cage, a crab-trap; partan-crab = sense 1; ˈpartan-face, an ill-favoured or sour-faced creature, a term of abuse: cf. sense 2; ˌpartan-ˈfull a., as full as a crab is of meat; ˈpartan-ˌhanded a., close-fisted, stingy; ˈpartan-ˈtoe, a crab's claw.
1899Crockett A. Mark xviii. 140 To set his *partan cages in Byness Bay.
1893Stevenson Catriona xxii, A boat, that was backed like a *partan-crab.
1895Roy Horseman's Wd. xii. (E.D.D.), Answer yoursell, *parten-face, gin you're grown sic a wonder o' wisdom.
1787Taylor Poems 56 (E.D.D.) She was sae *partan-fu' o' pride.
1823Galt Entail xci, Ye *partan-handit,..Mammon o' unrighteousness.
a1568‘Listis Lordis, I sall yow tell’ 57 (Bannatyne MS.) With ten *pertane tais, And nyne knokis of windil strais. |