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plouk, plook, n.|pluk|
Forms: 5 plowke, 6 plouke, plucke, Sc. pluik, 6–7 pluke, 7– plouk, 9 plook.
[Origin obscure: cf. Sc. plouk, pluke = plug n. Gael. pluc a lump, knot, bung, tumour, pimple, appears to be from Sc.]
1. A pimple. Now Sc. and north. dial.
1483Cath. Angl. 284/1 A Plowke, pluscula; plusculetus. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 168 b, If they [raisins] be layd to with rue..they heale rede angri nyght ploukes and sores. 1562― Baths 9 b, This bath..is good..for scalde heades and pluckes in the heade. 1578J. Melvill Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 64 The twa men war verie read and tead-lyk faced, for ploukes and lumpes. 1579Langham Gard. Health 510 Head plouks and blaines, rub it with the iuice and wine. 1589R. Bruce Serm. Isa. xxxviii. 1–3 (1591) 1 b, A pestilentious byle..stryking out in many heades or in many plukes. 1804Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 106 Aw spatter'd owre wi' reed plouks. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Plooks, small scabs or blotches.
†2. A small knob placed a short distance below the brim of a metal vessel for measuring liquids, to show the point of exact measure. Sc. Obs.
1599Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 93 That all stoupis..sal be agriabill in mesour to the jug and stampit with the townis stamp, and that the pluik be benethe the mouth of ilk stoup as followis. 1826Galt Lairds xviii. 163 note, Scotch pint-stoups, before the reformation of the imperial measure, were made to hold something more than the standard quantity, but at the point of the true measure a small papilla or plook projected, the space between which and the brim was left for an ad libitum.
Hence † plouk, plook v., trans. to furnish (a stoup) with a plouk or measuring-knob.
1580–1Burgh Rec. Glasgow (Rec. Soc.) I. 83 The treyn stoipis to be plovkit and merkit lykwys. |