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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1718

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SLUPE, n.2 Prob. a misprint for fluke, Fleuk n.1, a flounder.Fif. 1718 Burgess Ticket Buckhaven 1:
Sea-cats, Potches, . . . Slupes, Water Paddocks.

[Reference is made to this comic “burgess ticket” in D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 220 as “sea-dogs, flukes, pikes, dike-paddocks”.]

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