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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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WEEL-HAPPIT, ppl.adj. Also -it. Well-covered up, well-protected (ne.Sc. 1973). See Hap, v.¹Edb. 1801 J. Thomson Poems 132:
Weel-happet in a cosie hive, To bang the winter's blaw.Lnk. 1919 G. Rae Clyde and Tweed 33:
The lea, weel-happit, cuddles in the fauld.Sc. 1998 Scotsman (27 Aug) 17:
Night falls on Duddingston. As befits the closing of a perfect summer's day in Scotland, it is freezing. We sit, weel happit, in the darkening manse garden of this suburbified Edinburgh village, renowned for skittles and skating ministers, and let the play unfold before us.