pit-mirk, a. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. pit n.1 + mirk a.]
As dark as a pit (or as the pit, hell: cf. pit n.1 4); intensely dark, pitch-dark.
| 1728 Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 29 It fell late, And him benighted by the gate. To lye without, pit-mirk, did shore him, He couldna see his thumb before him. 1815 Scott Guy M. xi, It's pit mirk, but there's no an ill turn on the road but twa. 1886 Stevenson Kidnapped iii. 20 Neither moon nor star, sir, and pit-mirk. |