A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines this adjective with the utmost delicacy: ‘Of persons or animals: More than ordinarily fleshy’ and illustrates it with an elegant simile from Andrew of Wyntoun’s Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (c1420): The carle [fellow] was fat as ony selch [seal].
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