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Margaret Calderwood recorded this uncomfortable departure in A Journey in England, Holland etc. (1756): “He asked all the company, and wished them a good night”.
Moving on perhaps not so quickly, this comes from Robert Fergusson’s poem Leith Races (1773): “Great feck gae hirpling hame like fools, The cripple lead the blind”. Obviously a good time was had.
In her novel in 1952 with the interesting title Lobsters on the Agenda, Naomi Mitchison wrote: “I’ve seen him often enough hirplin’ round, him and his stick”. And later Hirple appears in Wittgenstein’s Web by Sheena Blackhall (1996): “Ah, bit the meenister hidna seen (or I hid but chose to notice) and Bunty Strachan hirplin up the stairs from his mither’s bedroom … “.
In 2017, Sheila McNab wrote to the Sunday Post (Dundee): “In his Word On The Words column, Steve Finan says: ‘Nothing rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.’ I beg to differ – the Scottish word hirple rhymes perfectly with purple. I remember hearing my Scottish grandmother use the word from my school days in Glasgow.”
The word is still used. John Nicolson recorded in the Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser in February 2023: “Some of you may have noticed that I’m a bit lanky when I’m out. And for the last few weeks, I’ve been using a stick. I have succumbed to that widespread Scottish curse, arthritis”.
The Scots Word of the Week comes from Scots Language Dictionaries.
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