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wabbit, a. Sc.|ˈwɒbɪt| Also wappit, wubbit. [Of uncertain origin; perh. f. wap v.1, but Sc. Nat. Dict. tentatively suggests connection with woubit n.] Tired out, exhausted; ‘off colour’.
1895W. Stewart Lilts & Larks frae Larkie 59 Braithless, blinded, a' but wabbit, On I sprauchled, heid agee. 1922J. Buchan Huntingtower viii. 164 When he had run round about them till they were wappit, he out wi' his catty and got one o' them on the lug. 1928Scots Mag. May 145 You're lookin' fair wubbit. What ails ye the day? 1973Sunday Post 5 Aug. 16/2 Been feeling a bit wabbit lately? Blaming it on the heat and the close, thundery weather? 1983M. Truman Murder in Smithsonian (1985) xxiii. 163 ‘I'm feeling a bit wabbit’, she said... ‘Wabbit?’ ‘Not well.’ |