▪ I. tarrow, v. Sc.
(ˈtærəʊ)
[app. a parallel form to tarry v. (sense 3): cf. harrow and harry, worow and worry.]
intr. To delay, hesitate, show reluctance. (Nearly = tarry v. 3.)
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiii. (George) 133, & gyf þu tarowis it to do..we sal bryne þe & al þine. c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. xiii. (Frog & Mouse) xxii, And it to cun perqueir se thow not tarrow. a 1568 in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 268 On twenty schilling now he tarrowis To ryd the he gait by the plewis. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 295, I am sure it is sin to tarrow at Christ's good meat, and not to eat when he saith, ‘Eat, O well beloved’. 1666 J. Livingstone in Sel. Biog. (Wodrow Soc.) I. 282 Tarrow not of this my dealing. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, Like dawted wean that tarrows at its meat. 1786 Burns Dream xv, I hae seen their coggie fou, That yet hae tarrow't at it. 1899 Spence Shetland Folk-Lore 216 The mair he tarrows the less he gets. |
Hence ˈtarrowing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈtarrowingly adv., reluctantly.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxix. (Cosme & Damyane) 60 He It tuk tarowandly. c 1598 D. Ferguson Sc. Prov. §42 (1785) 4 A tarrowing bairn was never fat. 1632 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 91 Let your soul, like a tarrowing and mislearned child, take the dorts. 1832 A. Henderson Sc. Prov. 131 Lang tarrowing taks a' the thanks awa. |
▪ II. tarrow
variant of taro.