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▪ I. creesh, creish, n. Sc.|kriːʃ|
6 creische, cresche, 7–9 creish, 8 creisch, kreish, 9 creesh, cresh.
[a. OF. craisse, cresse = graisse, gresse fat, grease:—L. crassa, fem. of crassus thick, fat, gross, in late L. also grassus (see Du Cange). In Gael. créis (kreːʃ), s with a ‘small’ vowel being always |ʃ|; several instances of a similar change occur in Lowland Sc.; cf. also gresche = grease.]
1. Grease, fat.
a1400Burgh Lawis lxviii, Woll, nowte cresche or swyne sayme. 1500–20Dunbar Dance Sevin Synnis 99 In creische that did incress. 1513Douglas æneis vii. xi. 61 Fat cresche or same. 1862A. Hislop Proverbs Scot. 41 Butter's king o' a' creesh.
2. A ‘lick’, a stroke. Cf. anoint v. 5.
a1774Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 93 (Jam.) Now some for this, wi' satire's leesh, Has gi'en auld Edinbrough a creesh. 1833Moir Mansie Wauch xxii. (1849) 172 Give the beast a good creish.
▪ II. creesh, v. Sc.|kriːʃ|
Forms: see prec.
[f. creesh n.; cf. F. graisser.]
trans. To grease. to creesh the loof (fig.): ‘to grease the palm’, i.e. with a douceur. Cf. to grease (a person) in the hand (see grease v.).
1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 237 (Jam.) Like the Orkney butter, neither good to eat, nor to creisch wool. a1774Fergusson Hallowfair Poems (1845) 13 He'll take the hint and creish her loof Wi' what will buy her fairin. 1816Scott Antiq. x, ‘Would ye creesh his bonny brown hair wi' your nasty ulyie?’ 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 48 If he was only able to creish the clerk's loof. |
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