scowdern.
/ˈskaʊdə/, U.S. /ˈskaʊdər/, Scottish English /ˈskʌʊdər/, Irish English /ˈskaʊdər/ Scottish.
1. Scorching, slight burning.
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a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 167 Till in a birn beneath the crook They're singit wi' a scowder To death that day.
1793 T. Scott Poems 358 Love has gie'n his heart a scouder.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 137 If things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gi'e you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes.
2. Anglo-Irish. (See quot. 1833) literal and figurative.
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1833 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry 2nd Ser. III. 61 ‘Franky,’ they would say, ‘is no finished priest in the larnin'; he's but a scowdher’. Now a scowdher is an oaten cake laid upon a pair of tongs placed over the..embers... In a few minutes the side first laid down is scorched: it is then turned, and the other side is also scorched.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scowderv.
/ˈskaʊdə/, U.S. /ˈskaʊdər/, Scottish English /ˈskʌʊdər/ Scottish.
1. transitive. To scorch, burn slightly.
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1535 [see scowdered adj. at Derivatives].
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall iv. sig. B2 v By scowdring their skins in the Sunne.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 163 For weel she trows..That ky hae tint their milk wi' evil eie, And corn been scowder'd on the glowing kill.
1831 S. E. Ferrier Destiny I. xx. 203 Your cook's not a good hare-dresser... After all, I believe it's only a little scowthered.
2. intransitive. To undergo scorching.
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1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 54 We'll..send them [sc. witches] hame, To scouther forever in h——'s blue flame!
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ˈscowdered adj. scorched; also see quot. 1781.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Fy, skolderit skyn, thow art bot skyre and skrumple.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Thy skolderit skin, hewd lyk ane saffrone bag.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 534 His skowdrit skyn wes blak as ony ruke.
1672 Pasquil on Stair Family in Bk. Scotish Pasquils (1868) 183 On shoulder clap made her Mess James embrace, And lick the dreepings of his scouther'd face.
1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' x Gude scoudered bannocks.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 95/1 Scowder'd, over-heated with working.
ˈscowdering adj. scorching; also (of cold, etc.) withering, blighting.
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1799 J. Struthers Poet. Wks. (1850) II. 202 Cauld winter wi' his scowdering eye.
1875 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) I. 109 The snell an' scowtherin' norther blaw Frae blae Brunteelan'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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