orp
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English
Etymology
Unknown; possibly related to warp.
Verb
orp (third-person singular simple present orps, present participle orping, simple past and past participle orped)
- (Scotland) To complain, grumble, or be discontented.
- 1895, Robert Ford, Tayside Songs and Other Verses, Alexander Gardner, page 12:
- My heart is ever orpin' on / The bonnie banks o' Tay.
- (Scotland) To be in ill health; to be sickly and shrivelled.
- 1820 November, Thomas Gillespie, “Sketches of Village Character”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 200:
- Of changling Imp—he spoke, no care could rear, / Which backward seemed to orp, from year to year.
References
- “orp”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “orp”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
