shilpit

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I'm afraid it is long since anybody had an affection for shilpit, hirpling, old Ballingall, and as for this lassie Grizel, she had never spoken to him until I sent her on an errand to his house a week ago.

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  1. Weak; washy; insipid. [Scots.] Sherry 's but shilpit drink. Scott, Redgauntlet, xx.
  2. Of a sickly paleness; feeble-looking. [Scots.] The laird … pronounced her to be but a shilpit thing. Miss Ferrier, Marriage, xxiv.

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  • IF YOU like your actors square-jawed, gym-honed and always sipping mineral water, you will be disappointed by the shambling and shilpit man who's somehow evaded the doorman at this swish hotel - but I don't and I'm not.
  • I'm afraid it is long since anybody had an affection for shilpit, hirpling, old Ballingall, and as for this lassie Grizel, she had never spoken to him until I sent her on an errand to his house a week ago. —  Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
  • He pronounced the claret shilpit, and demanded brandy with great vociferation. —  Waverley
  • 'Sherry's but shilpit drink, and a gill's a sma' measure for twa gentlemen to crack ower at their first acquaintance. —  Redgauntlet
  • Whatna shilpit man's this that Leevie's gotten for her new jo? —  Doom Castle
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  1. Origin unknown; perhaps connected with Swedish skäll, watery, thin, tasteless.
 

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