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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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AIPPLE, n.  A frequent Sc. spelling of apple, indicating the common pronunciation. Also aippul, aypil. [epl; less freq. ɛpl]Sc. 1998 Aberdeen Evening Express 23 Sep 5:
Pitmedden Garden closes its summer season this weekend with a Cornkisters and Aipples afternoon at the historic property near Ellon. Sc. 2002 Scotsman 10 Dec 14:
One day, Willie opened his lunch box. "Some bastard's stolen ma' aipple." He looked over the wall and there was the young O'Brien munching away. Sc. 2004 Belfast News Letter 10 Apr 20:
Aipples hae the naime o' the airt thae cum frae. Ivryboadie knaws "Beauty of Bath" an "Bramleys". A yinst raid that thair's mair nor fower hunner differ kins o' aipple i Inglan.Ags. 1915 V. Jacob Songs of Angus, The Gowk ii.:
O the aipples grow bonnilie!Dundee 1994 Matthew Fitt in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 174:
The young lad skytit roon the coarnir intil the merkat-gate an fleescht it doon the pavement, keekin ahint him as he gaed an neer enough cowpit a barry load o aippuls. Edb. 1995 Irvine Welsh Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996) 26:
People in the big hooses, hooses that were the same size as our block, which sixty families lived in; they would just go away and phone the polis. They must have thought we were gaunny chorie aypils or something.

Combs.: (1) Aipple-cake, apple-tart. (2) Apple-coal (see quot.). (3) Apple-flory, see Flory. (4) Sc. forms of St.Eng. combs. — e.g. aipple-sass (apple-sauce), aipple-tairt, aipple-wife.(1) w.Dmf. 1920 J. L. Waugh Heroes in Homespun 108:
I aye bakit, beforehaun, a girdle o' roon currant-scones, a trekkle bun, an' an aipple-cake.(2) Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 6 and 74:
Apple coal, see yolk coal. — Yolk coal, or Yolks. Free or soft coal.(4) Sc. [1829] Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) II. 322:
Gie my trencher a gude clash o' aipple-sass.