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单词 like spotty
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like spotty (wantin' the tail)
1. Scottish. (A name for) a will-o'-the-wisp. Chiefly in like spotty (wantin' the tail): with great speed; instantaneously. Obsolete.See note in etymology.
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1833 J. S. Sands Poems 95 To see him i' the loupin' ague, Loupin' like Spottie ow're fouks' houses.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 178 Spottie, to run like, wintin' the tail, to run with great speed.
a1901 J. B. Salmond Bawbee Bowden (1922) 83 Aff they gaed like spotty wantin' the tail.
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