Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND

Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1705, 1793-1909

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JOICE, n. Also jice, jise. Sc. variants of Eng. juice (Edb., Peb., Rxb. 1901 N.E.D., joice; Per., Ayr. 1915–26 Wilson, jice, Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., joice; Sh., Ork., Abd., Ags. 1959). See also Juice. Adj. jisey. [dʒɔis, dʒəis]Sc. 1705 Observator (11 June) 3:
Squesing the Joice out of Aples in making of Cyder.Peb. 1793 R. Brown Carlop Green (1817) 129:
Frae his mouth's ay oozing bubbles, Mixt wi' tobacco joice.Rxb. 1820 Scots Mag. (June) 536:
To cull the fruits o' sweetest juice, Of which my Annie had made choice.Sc. 1831 S. E. Ferrier Destiny I. xix.:
A month ago I could have treated you to as fine berries as perhaps you ever tasted. They were uncommonly large and jisey, and at the same time extremely high-flavoured . . . and there's the honey-blobs, an uncommon fine berry — a great deal of jise in it.Fif. 1873 J. Wood Ceres Races 32:
While he wha tries the blue-stane jice Is in the jogges in half a trice.Kcb. 1901 Trotter Gall. Gossip 126:
Deil's-Milk is the joice o' the Deil's-Milk plant, or Dandelion.Abd. 1909 J. Tennant Jeannie Jaffray 235:
Addin' sugar tae the wort an' to the grape jice afore they ferment them.

[The forms joys, joice are found in Eng. up to the second half of the 16th c., the diphthong being an occas. development of O.Fr. u in Mid.Eng., e.g. as in doyk (duke), floit (flute), froyte (fruit).]