shilpit
Appearance
Scots
[edit]Adjective
[edit]shilpit (comparative mair shilpit, superlative maist shilpit)
- weak, pinched, or starved in appearance
- 1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua:
- […] he turned from Willie with a faint sting of aversion. Always having miscarriages. A shilpit wife who made a shilpit drink.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- "of a sickly white appearance" (An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, University Press for W. & C. Tait, 1825)
- weak (as in a drink)
- 1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua:
- […] he turned from Willie with a faint sting of aversion. Always having miscarriages. A shilpit wife who made a shilpit drink.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
[edit]shilpit
- "a person trembling always" (An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, University Press for W. & C. Tait, 1825)