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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1911
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BRIDEGROOM, n. Also ne.Sc. form -greem (Abd. 1875 W. Alexander My Ain Folk 157, 229). Sc. usages:
1. In Comb.: ¶bridegroom's pottage, a plateful of hot porridge which a bridegroom was given to eat by the wedding party on entering his new home with his bride.Kcb. 1911 Crockett Rose of the Wilderness xxiv.:
All [at a country wedding] seemed of the ancient time, and I thought of the "bridegroom's pottage," which he was required to eat hot and in haste.
2. The gemmeous dragonet, Callionymus lyra (Mry. 1852 Zoologist X. 3460; ne.Sc. 1903 G. Sim Fauna of "Dee" 224).
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