A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1535-1567
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Cunt, n.2 Also: kunt. [OF. cunte.] = Count n.1 — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvi. 225.
[We must] gyf cunt redy be tale Of mesuris of this quhete 1535 Stewart 3018.
By calculatioun and by craftie cunt 1556 Rec. Earld. Orkney 258.
To haif tane cunt, rakning, and compleit payment … of all and hale the malis c 1567 Melville Corr. 232.
Theyre is four hundrethe [stones] lakkyng awght or nyne, quhilk sall cum to the kunt I ressauit
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