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▪ I. ˈnacket, n.1 Sc.
[app. ad. F. naquet ‘the boy that serues, or stops the ball..at Tennis; a..Tennis Court-keeper's boy’ (Cotgr.).]
†a. (See etym. note.) Obs.
b. A pert, forward, smart boy.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 67 Sa mony rakkettis, sa mony ketche-pillaris, Sic ballis, sic nackettis, and sic tutivillaris. 1833Sands Poems 121 (E.D.D.), In there comes a little nackit. 1890‘H. Haliburton’ In Scottish Fields 135 He would rest content with..referring to him as a ‘nacket’.
▪ II. ˈnacket, n.2 Sc.
[var. of nocket, of obscure origin, current in Sc. and Northumb.: see Eng. Dial. Dict.]
A snack or lunch: a slight repast.
1789Davidson Seasons 78 (Jam.). 1821Scott Pirate xi, She could not but say, that the young gentleman's nacket looked very good. |