Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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TROSK, n. A silly, talkative, empty-headed sort of person, a buffoon, an oaf, a slow-witted, slovenly person, freq. of a woman (Cai. 1973), also applied to animals.Cai. 1922 J. Horne Poems 127:
Gomerils, trosks, moniment fyarters, gushels, partans, dirdielochriggs — besides 'e real natives.Cai. 1932 John o' Groat Jnl. (25 Nov.):
A hairm-skairm kind o' a trosk.Cai. 1961 “Castlegreen” Tatties an' Herreen' 40:
Bit yon trosk o' a coo pit 'ur heid through 'e weir An' chowed up thur wan bit o' carpad.Cai. 1992 James Miller A Fine White Stoor 176:
Jessie's face twisted in scorn. 'Will Auld was aye a trosk as lang as I can mind.'
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