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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1658
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(Schilpit,) Shilpit, (ppl.) adj. [Common in the later dial. Perhaps connected with schirpe, a variant of S(c)harp adj., cf. sense 6.] Of wine: Thin, insipid, lacking ‘body’. — 1658 R. Moray Lett. fol. 230.
I think not you did amisse to abstain from wine a while … seing … the best you have is but shilpit stuff
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