scuggery north. dial.
(ˈskʌgərɪ)
[f. scug n.1 + -ery.]
Concealment, secrecy.
| a 1568 Henryson's Two Mice xiv. (Bannatyne MS.), In skugry ay, throw rankest girss and corne, And wondir sly, full preuely cwth thay creip. 1788 W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 350 In scuggery, in secrecy; hid, as from creditors. |