gyten.
/ɡʌɪt/, U.S. /ɡaɪt/, Scottish English /ɡʌit/ Scottish.
A contemptuous word for a child; a brat; a first-year pupil in the Edinburgh High School.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gyte, Gyteling, applied contemptuously, or in ill humour, to a young child.
1894 Daily News 28 May 8/5 None of the ‘gytes’ of his period has told us nearly so much about Mr. Stevenson as Mr. Stevenson has told us.
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gyteadj.
/ɡʌɪt/, U.S. /ɡaɪt/, Scottish English /ɡʌit/ Scottish.
Mad, out of one's senses.
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i The man's gane gyte!
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 302 The gudeman's gane clean gyte, I think.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xix. 182 Are you gone gyte?
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