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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BLACK WEET, n. Rain as opposed to snow or white weet (Ork. 1975). (See 1909 quot.)Abd. 1889 Sc. N. & Q. (Ser. 1) III. 95:
It rained doon black weet sax ooks neither uplin nor devalin.Abd. 1909 P. C. Simpson Life of Prin. Rainy I. 117:
Principal Rainy . . . was walking home when a perfect hurricane of wind and deluge of rain — what I believe an Aberdeenshire man would describe as “black weet” — came on.