codracht
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Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; cf. codderar.
Noun
[edit]codracht
- an idle person of a low class
- 1588, The Chronicle of Perth, a Register of Remarkable Occurrences, Chiefly Connected with That City, from the Year 1210 to 1668, section 58:
- The slander […] of young women […] dwelling together as codrois […]
- 1636, The Annals of Banff, volume I, section 75:
- […] [those] who liwe idlie as codroches out of service in privat houses, haweing na laufull calling, traid, nor vocatioun […]
Adjective
[edit]codracht
- slovenly, dirty, rustic, unseemly
- 1618, The Chronicle of Perth, section 79:
- An coddroch hussy keeped an house by herself […]
- 1627, The Annals of Banff, volume I, section 57:
- The idle, vagabond, and codroche people are to be warded till they find caution that they shall not return […]
References
[edit]- “codracht” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.