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Quotation dates: 1827
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CRIFT, v.1 ? The context suggests the meaning to chat, yarn, but the word is prob. due to a misunderstanding of the form and meaning of Cluff, v.2Sc. 1827 C. I. Johnstone Eliz. de Bruce II. xii.:
The day has been when the old Abbey residenters would, round a winter's fire keep crifting away at those auld warld stories of Chatelar and David Rizzio.
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