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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1828
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¶RAISIGO, adj. Of weather: rough, blustery, stormy.Edb. 1828 M. & M. Corbett Tales & Leg. III. 56:
It's a raisigo kind o' a night — your father will get a sair snifter coming by the Whistling Clough.
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