A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1525, 1592-1684
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Pad(d)ill, -el, -le, n. Also: paid(d)- and -ell, -oll. [Only Sc. Of unknown origin.] The lump-fish. Also cock-paddle, Husche-paddil and paddel-fisch, id. —(a) 1525 Household Bks. Jas. V 26.
j padill [etc.] 1592 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 75.
Ane lapster nett … quhairwith … partanis and paddillis with wther sort of schell fische was takin 1598 Stirling Ant. III. 309. 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii. 24.
Lumpus Anglorum, … the cock-paddle a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) ii.
Cynoglossus, a paddel fish —(b) 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI 17 Mar.
Twa paiddillis 1597 Ib. 26 Apr.
Paidell 1598 Ib. 7 Apr.
Paidollis
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