camstairy

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adjective

unruly; unmanageable

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

adjectivecamstairy (comparative more camstairy, superlative most camstairy)

comparative more camstairy · superlative most camstairy

  1. Scotlandarchaicunruly; unmanageable

    My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.

    1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII
    1 more example

    "Ah!" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.

    1908, John Oxenham, Pearl of Pearl Island

Origin

From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component.

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