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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1499-1599
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Bourding, vbl. n. Also: bourdyn, -ene; bowrdyng, -ing; burding. [ME. bourdyng (14th c.), bourding, f. Bourd v.] Jesting; sport.Also in bour-bourding: see Bour n. 3. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2552.
Is this ȝour bourding in eirnist than? c1420 Wynt. iii. 453 (A).
That he mycht thar bourdyn se 1513 Doug. xii. xii. 174.
To na bowrdyng twichit thar interprys 1535 Stewart 56767.
Sic bourding then it wes na barnis pla 15.. Sym & Bruder 111.
This was no bourdene to Brown Hill That gatt betwene the browis 15.. Clariodus i. 1545.
Thus unto hir he said in his bourding 1558-66 Knox I. 147.
It was bitter bowrding to the Cardinall and his courte 1568 Pref. Lyndsay 4.
The bischoppis at sic bourding leuch neuer ane quhit a1598 Ferg. Prov. 94.
There are many soothe words spoken in bourding
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