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▪ I. tarrow, v. Sc.|ˈtærəʊ|
[app. a parallel form to tarry v. (sense 3): cf. harrow and harry, worow and worry.]
intr. To delay, hesitate, show reluctance. (Nearly = tarry v. 3.)
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiii. (George) 133, & gyf þu tarowis it to do..we sal bryne þe & al þine. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xiii. (Frog & Mouse) xxii, And it to cun perqueir se thow not tarrow. a1568in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 268 On twenty schilling now he tarrowis To ryd the he gait by the plewis. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 295, I am sure it is sin to tarrow at Christ's good meat, and not to eat when he saith, ‘Eat, O well beloved’. 1666J. Livingstone in Sel. Biog. (Wodrow Soc.) I. 282 Tarrow not of this my dealing. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, Like dawted wean that tarrows at its meat. 1786Burns Dream xv, I hae seen their coggie fou, That yet hae tarrow't at it. 1899Spence Shetland Folk-Lore 216 The mair he tarrows the less he gets.
Hence ˈtarrowing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈtarrowingly adv., reluctantly.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxix. (Cosme & Damyane) 60 He It tuk tarowandly. c1598D. Ferguson Sc. Prov. §42 (1785) 4 A tarrowing bairn was never fat. 1632Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 91 Let your soul, like a tarrowing and mislearned child, take the dorts. 1832A. Henderson Sc. Prov. 131 Lang tarrowing taks a' the thanks awa.
▪ II. tarrow
variant of taro. |