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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BAISS, v.2 Also bace. Sc. form of Eng. baste, to drub.Sc. 1776 in Child Ballads (1956) V. 104:
Now take a cud in ilka hand, And bace her up and down, man.Lth. 1825 Jam.2:
To baiss, to beat, to drub. vbl.n. baissin(g), “a drubbing” (Slk. 1825 Jam.2).Bnff.2 1932:
She gae 'im a baissin 'at he winna forget in a hurry.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin (1868) v.:
The incensed Dominie treatit the haill squad o' us to sic a soond baissin' as never mither's son amang us had experienced afore.
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