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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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TRODGE, v, n.

I. v. Sc. form of Eng. trudge (Slk. a.1835 Hogg Tales (1887) III. 160, s.Sc. 1847 H. S. Riddell Poems 266; Lnk. 1862 D. Wingate Poems 60; Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 10; Sh., Ork., Ags. 1973). Also vbl.n. Abd. 1990 Stanley Robertson Fish-Hooses (1992) 33:
Her heart wint tae her mooth and she wis trash being alane wi hersel. Aye, but the trodging upstairs got looder and looder until at last Tessa wis aside herself wi fear.

II. n. Sc. form of Eng. trudge.Abd. 1994 Stanley Robertson in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 16:
Maistly she wid either sit cooched in the hoose or she wid gang awa for a trodge tae hersel.