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Quotation dates: 1806, 1857, 1932
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†FORDWEBLIT, ppl.adj. Also -dweeblit. Greatly enfeebled, very weak. Rare and liter.Sc. 1806 R. Jamieson Ballads I. 241:
Her limbs fordweblit grew.s.Sc. 1857 H. S. Riddell Psalms xxxviii. 8:
I am fordweblit an' sair brokin.Abd. 1932 R. L. Cassie Scots Sangs 44:
Nae gantin gomerals i' their raws, Fordweeblit an' forgrutten.
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