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▪ I. clype, n. Sc.|klaɪp|
[Origin and sense doubtful.]
Jamieson has ‘An ugly, ill-shaped fellow’. Now gen. Sc. in sense ‘a telltale’.
a1500Colkelbie Sow i. 285 (Jam.), Clarus, the long clype Playit on a bag pype. 1500–20Dunbar In secreit place 36 Quod scho, My Clype, my vnspaynit gyane With moderis milk ȝit in ȝour mychane. 1825Jamieson s.v., ‘Ne're an ill-far'd clype.’ Mearns, Aberd. 1825Jamieson Suppl., Clype, a telltale, Loth.; always applied to a female, Clydes. 1895‘I. Maclaren’ Auld Lang Syne 143 The verra lassies cried ‘clype’ (telltale) at him gaein' hame. 1931A. M. Williams Bundle of Yarns 47 The clype of the class told her that Johnnie had a preen. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 189 In Scotland a tale-bearer is a ‘clype’ or ‘clypie’ (hence ‘Clype the clout)’.
▪ II. clype, v. Sc.|klaɪp|
Also clipe.
[Obscurely developed from OE. cleopian clepe v.]
To inform on (a person), to tell tales.
1843Second Crack aboot Kirk 1 Wha do you think, Saunders, has been clipeing? 1894Daily News 28 May 8/5 It is not the other High School boys who ‘clype’, as they say, of Scott's battles and scrapes. 1923G. Blake Mince Collop Close ix. 256 Mrs. Sarah Rafferty had cliped on Bella to the police. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 73/2 Begg, the censorious cashier, ever ready to ‘clype’ on his subordinates. 1963‘H. Calvin’ It's Different Abroad viii. 109 ‘Roddy did something else too...’ ‘You shut up.’ ‘Well, you did!’ ‘Don't clype, Vanessa.’
Hence ˈclyping ppl. a., gossiping, tattling.
1772Ramsay Tale 3 Bonnets i. i, When Men of Mettle thought it Nonsence To heed that cleping Thing ca'd Conscience. 1895‘H. Ochiltree’ Redburn xiii. 129 The pechin' clypin auld limmer. 1921Blackw. Mag. July 90/2 That wee clypin' body Corris boakes them up lik' vomit. 1928J. Baxter A' Ae' Oo' 10 Did clypin' bow nae deck the lift, The rain micht ne'er hae been! |