† hood-pick Sc. Obs.
Also 6 huid-, hude-, hud-, hudipyk.
[app. f. hood n.1 + pick v.; but the analysis is not clear.]
A miser, a skinflint.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xvi. 23 Sum gevis to littill full wretchitly, That his giftis ar not set by, And for a huidpyk [v. rr. hudipyk, hudepyk] haldin is hie. Ibid. xxvi. 59 Hud⁓pykis, hurdaris and gadderaris, All with that warlo went. a 1605 Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 213 Alace! poore hood-piks hunger-bitten. |