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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1798

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HAMIE, adj. Reminiscent of home, home-like, domestic.Edb. 1798 D. Crawford Poems 47:
Syne ripet a' my shallow pow For hamie lays; Resolv'd to write a sang to you, Before I raise.

[Hame + -ie, adj. suff. Cf. colloq. Eng. hom(e)y, id., from 1856.]

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