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shilpit (comparative mair shilpit, superlative maist shilpit)

  1. 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)
  2. "of a sickly white appearance" (An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, University Press for W. & C. Tait, 1825)
  3. 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

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shilpit

  1. "a person trembling always" (An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, University Press for W. & C. Tait, 1825)