orp, v. Sc.
[Origin obscure: cf. ON. verpa to throw, pa. pple. orpin thrown: cf. Sc. thrawn in sense ‘cross-grained, perverse, ill-humoured’.]
intr. To fret, to murmur discontentedly; ‘to weep with a convulsive pant’ (Glossary to Ramsay).
| 1725 Ramsay Gent. Sheph. i. ii, Like dawted wean..That for some feckless whim will orp and greet. 1836 M. Mackintosh Cottager's Dau. 191 They bood aye keep the neath⁓most in, To orp wi' grief. |
Hence ˈorping vbl. n., fretting, murmuring; ˈorpit ppl. a., fretful, discontented.
| 1599 Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον (1603) 46 Feare not their orping or being discontented, as long as yee rull well. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 116 Notwithstanding all the perswasions, orpings, threats, yea Treasonable assaults. 1614 Bp. Cowper Dikaiologie 143 You seeme to be very earnest here, but all men may see it is but your Orpit or Ironic conceit. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xiv. (1873) 84 ‘Benjie was an orpiet, peeakin, little sinner’. |