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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1725, 1794-1825, 1912-1934
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BLASHY, adj.
1. Rainy, wet, gusty. Gen.Sc.Sc. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Shepherd Act I. Sc. ii. in Poems (1728):
The thick blawn Wreaths of Snaw, or blashy Thows, May smoor your Wathers, and may rot your Ews.Sh.(D) 1915 G. W. Stout in Old-Lore Misc., Ork., Sh., etc. VIII. i. 60:
Hit wiz ē blashy nicht, late a hairst-time, it (that) wir bold fölla wiz nearly driven ùt o' 'is wits — a' trow da cause o' a rinklin lamp.e.Lth. 1794 G. Buchan-Hepburn Agric. of E. Lth. 73:
The smut in wheat was most general after a wet open winter, and a cold dropping, or, as we vulgarly call it, a blashy spring.Lnk. 1928 T. S. Cairncross in Scots Mag. (Feb.) 349:
Dootless she's had a blashy road to traivel.
2. Applied to meat or drink: weak.Sc. 1820 Blackw. Mag. (Nov.) 154:
Ah, sirs, thae blashy vegetables are a bad thing to have atween ane's ribs in a rimy night.Sc. 1825 Jam.2:
Blashy. Applied to meat or drink that is thin, weak, flatulent, or viewed as debilitating to the stomach.Bnff.4 1912Abd.19 1934Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.
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