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sybow Sc.|ˈsaɪbəʊ|
Forms: 6 sebowe, pl. sybees, sybbow, 7 pl. sybeis, 8 pl. sybouse, 8– sybo, 9 seybo(w, se(i)bow, sibow, syboe, sibba, saybee, seybie, 7– sybow.
[Sc. variant of cibol, ciboule, q.v.]
Orig. = chibol 1; now, a young or spring onion with the green stalk attached = chibol 2.
1574in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 50 That teind sybbows, leeks, kaill, and onyons, be discharged. 1580Min. in D. D. Black Hist. Brechin iii. (1867) 44, 40s. resting of {pstlg}8 due James Watt for Sybees that grew in his yard. 1653Culross Session Minutes, Cited for pulling sybows on the Lords Day. 1659Melrose Regality Rec. (S.H.S. 1914) 218 [The agreed-on price of] certane sybeis [bought from him]. a1682Sempill Blythsome Wedding 55 With sybows and rifarts and carlings. 1727P. Walker Semple Biog. Presbyt. (1827) I. 162, I have beheaded your Duke like a Sybow. 1818Scott Old Mort. xxxii, The head's ta'en aff them, as clean as I wad bite it aff a sybo. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 39 Sebows and leeks.
attrib.1752Records of Elgin (New Spald. Cl. 1903) I. 462 Ilk firkin of onions or sybowheads 9d. 1786Burns Ep. to M‘Adam v, A lee dyke-side, a sybow-tail, And barley-scone, shall cheer me. |