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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1570, 1637-1638
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Miscuke, v. Also: miscuik, -cook. [Cuke v. Only Sc.] tr. To cook badly, spoil in cooking. b. fig. To mishandle, mismanage, bungle. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 455.
Bot folk a cury may miscuke, that knawledge wantisb. c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 1180.
Had it cum hame he had hir bruikit, Bot, or it come, it wes miscuikit 1570 Satirical Poems xvi. 8.
This commoun weill he hes miscuikit 1570 Ib. xxi. 12. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 515.
My Lord Jesus hath not miscooked or spilled this sweet cross 1638 Baillie I. 70.
These who, by their miscarriages and imprudencies, had miscooked all the matter
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