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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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BAKE, BAIK, v.

1. To knead dough or paste, in lit and fig senses.Sc. 1825 Jam.2:
This term is rather restricted to the act of kneading, which is distinguished from what is called firing bread.
Ags. 1825 Jam.2:
It is not reckoned happy for two persons to bake bread together.
Arg.1 1932:
His breed's baikit, means that he has, by chance or design, got into a secure worldly position - e.g. a man of small means who marries a rich woman.
Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr Duguid 16:
My granny after having helpit half of the parish into life, and . . . kind o' bakit wheens of them into existence, departed this life when I would be about ten years auld.
Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn. 4:
Bake, to knead bread, as well as to bake it in an oven.

2. Of a competitor at a ploughing-match: to smoothe the furrows by hand where they are broken or irregular (Kcb. 1975), from the notion of kneading them into shape.

3. Comb.: baked-tattie, a baked potato. Edb. 2003:
Ah like a baked tattie tae ma tea.
wm.Sc. 1995 Alan Warner Morvern Callar 22:
I was famished and they offered so we waited in the queue outside the baked-tattie shop.

[See Baken, first quot.]

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