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shilpit, a. Sc.|ˈʃɪlpɪt|
Also shilpet, shelpit.
[Etymology unknown; cf. shirpit.
Sc. dialects have also shilpy in the same sense, and shilp ‘a pale sickly girl’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).]
1. Of persons: Pale and sickly-looking; weak, feeble, puny.
1813Picken Poems I. 79 (E.D.D.) There Care nae shilpit face can shaw. 1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage xxiv, The Laird, as he peered at her over his spectacles, pronounced her to be but a shilpit thing. 1820Byron Let. to Murray 23 Apr., Abstemiousness has made my brain but a shilpit concern for a Scotch sitting ‘inter pocula’. 1896Crockett Grey Man xxxiv. 230 My puir bit shilpit lassie.
2. Of liquor: Insipid, weak, thin.
1814Scott Wav. xi, He pronounced the claret shilpit, and demanded brandy with great vociferation. 1824― Redgauntlet ch. xx, Sherry's but shilpit drink.
3. (See quot.)
1856J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 725 Shilpit (Scot.), applied to ill-filled ears of corn. |
