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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1721, 1776-1836
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MARGULLIE, v. Also margully; margulie; margoully; murgullie, -y. To mangle, to hack about, to worry (as a dog) (Sc. 1818 Sawers); to besmirch, debase, abuse. [mər′gʌle]Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 208:
They spoil'd my Sense, and staw my Cash, My Muse's Pride murgully'd.Ags. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 22:
Nature, unhurt by thrawart man, And nae margullied by chicane.Abd. c.1780 Bards of Bon-Accord (Walker 1887) 321:
It's sae margulied now an' musty.Sc. 1797 Scots Mag. (Aug.) 534:
They are sae conceited to their margoullying their vowels, consonants and dipthongs.Sc. 1813 The Scotchman 118:
They prentit a poem an sent it throu the town about him, an sae murgulliet the sairy creatur, that he was blyth to skelp about his biziness.Ayr. 1821 Scots Mag. (April) 351:
Some hairum-skairum rattle-skull, wham they'll murgullie like a collie.Sc. 1836 J. Struthers Dychmont III. 142:
Wasting time murgullying Greek.
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