Talk:upput

I wasn't sure enough to call it "putting up or erecting". Look at it: someone was funded to "upput the bridge and the burn [stream or brook] betwixt the bridges". Doesn't that suggest that "the bridge" was already a pre-existing thing? I think you are making the assumption I didn't dare to make, and probably misdefining the word. Equinox ◑ 01:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * P.S. We need a word (Blotto-ism) for defining stuff based on citations with excessive confidence and lack of clue. Whether you did it here or not. Equinox ◑ 01:59, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Kiwima @Equinox DSL lemmatises the Scots word at uppit and defines it just as Kiwima did. OED doesn't have the verb but does have a noun  which also has a matching sense, marked obsolete and missing from our entry. In other words, Kiwima ain't Blotto (nor blotto, I suspect). This, that and the other (talk) 02:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Okay. Thank you both! Equinox ◑ 03:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)