rosetyadj.
/ˈrɒzᵻti/, U.S. /ˈrɑzədi/, Scottish English /ˈrɔzᵻtɪ/ Scottish.
Rosined; resinous.
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rosinish1600
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rosety1831
1831 Perthshire Advertiser 14 Apr. One sturdy son of Crispin declares no man shall ever call him poor again, for he had his Lordship's saft hand in his ‘rozetty fist’.
1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls iv. 94 ‘Rosetty (resiny) roots’ for firewood.
1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey xxvi. 273 The tooth cud be easily pu'd oot by means o' a rosety string.
1932 D. Campbell Bamboozled 19 Ging ye awa' oot an' fetch the rosetty cloggie tae the hack-stock.
2000 S. Blackhall Singing Bird 35 Nae lauchin bairns teet oot frae a rosity pine.
Compounds
rosety end n. the rosined end of a shoemaker's thread; the thread itself; cf. roset end n. at roset n.1 Compounds and rosin-end n. at rosin n. Compounds 2.
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1833 Perthshire Advertiser 12 Sept. A strong ‘rozetie end’ was twisted round the devoted tooth, and then tied firmly to the patient's foot.
1895 ‘G. Setoun’ Sunshine & Haar 299 It's no a thread, it's a rosety end.
1948 J. G. Johnston Come fish with Me 58 The correct way to wax silk is that used through the ages by the cobblers when waxing their ‘rossity ends’.
1963 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 5 Mar. As a loon he was a regular scrounger of ‘rossity en's’ from the village ‘souter’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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