and brocht a tin box doish doon on his heid.Your entire office will be able to use your search subscription. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) xiii.: The train gae a shoag. 13 1910: When the children are all running about, there is always someone coming “doist at yer elbick.” Ags. Milne Orra Loon 2: Reistit on a load o' rakins That gangs deistin' ower the stanes.ģ. Spence Forsyth Guff o' Waur 52: He coontit oot some metal rings and laid them in a line, Syne dystit them thegither on the fleer. a couthy congregation of Aberdeenshire farmers, who brought with them to the village thoroughfares all the dysting gait of the plough-rig and the warm aroma of the Bogie Roll. 1988 Jack Webster Another Grain of Truth (1989) 25. 1981 Jack Webster A Grain of Truth (1988) 112: Porters would dyst along the platform, calling 'Maud, change for Fraserburgh'. 26): An Aberdeenshire lad, visiting a brother in London during the heavy air raids, was amazed to find him quite indifferent to danger and wrote home: “ - gaes aboot an' the bombs jist dystin' doon a' roon.” Abd. (1 Oct.) 2/4: Bit the twa o's got dystit doon on a seat weel back. 9 1949, doist) to move heavily and energetically ( dyst Abd., Abd. 2, doyst Mearns 6 1949), to bump of waves: to buffet (Ayr. 1808 Jam.) to fall, sit or throw down with a heavy thud (Abd. 17 1940: Remark of an old lady in Edinburgh castle to her soldier son who had explained to her that a gun she had just heard was “sunset”: - “Losh! I didna ken that the sun gaed doun wi' a deish like that in Edinbory.”Ģ. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) xiii.: I took Sandy a doish i' the back wi' my umberell. 2 1948: Did you hear the doisht an' doishtin' in the sheep cote last nicht? 'Twas jeest like a man at the flail. 21: The lassie syed er milkin An set doon er pails wi a dyst.

Shirrefs Poems, Gl., doyst Mearns 6 1949, dyst Ags. Also doyst, deish(t), deist, doish(t), † doyce. This entry has not been updated but may contain minor corrections and revisions.ĭOIST, DYST, n., v., adv. Includes material from the 2005 supplement. Show Show Browse Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)įirst published 1952 (SND Vol.

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