ill-scathe

noun

Harm; hurt.

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Meanings

nounill-scathe (uncountable)

alternative ill scathe

  1. ScotlandUKdialectaluncountableHarm; hurt.

    Then said Geitir: "I think you have much more excuse for considering this an ill scathe than you had the last time; for the other seemed to me of little moment. [...]"

    1918, “Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Volume 49 - Page 114”, in Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow

Origin

From ill + scathe.

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