plackn.¹

Brit.

/plak/, U.S.

/plæk/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s placke, late Middle English–1600s plak, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s plakk, late Middle English– plack; Sc pre-1700 plac, pre-1700 plaik, pre-1700 plak, pre-1700 plake, pre-1700 plauk, pre-1700 1700s– plack, 1900s– plock (Galloway).

Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch placke.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch placke, plac small coin (originally Flemish) of varying value, current in the 14th–15th cent. (Dutch regional (Holland) †plak small coin, e.g. in 19th-cent. use in Amsterdam denoting a coin worth two and a half cents), transferred use (the original sense probably being ‘flat disc’) of placke , plac stain, spot (Dutch plak : see pleck n.). The Middle Dutch word was also borrowed into other European languages; compare Middle Low German placke , plak small Flemish coin (1424 or earlier), also coin blank, Middle French, French plaque small Flemish coin (1425; also 1478 as plack ), post-classical Latin placca , placka , plaka (from c1370 in Dutch sources; 15th cent. in a British source). Compare placard n., placket n.¹

†1. A coin current in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Dutch coins

seskyn1413

dodkin1415

plackc1470

Rhenish1479

Utrecht1493

Utrecht noble1494

stiver1502

doit1594

stooter1598

doublejee1707

double shilling1744

William1836

steever1892

c1470 W. Wey Itineraries 1 At Calyse ye schal haue..for a doket xxiiij plackys, that ys best money vn to Brugys. At Brugeys ye schal haue as meny of plackys for a dim. nowbyl or a doket as ye had at Calyse. For a gyldern xix plackys.

1479 R. Cely Let. 14 June in Cely Lett. (1975) 53 Item vj docatys..xxxiij s. Item in plakys v li..v li. Fl.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 16 Thise ben grotes of englond. Suche ther be of flaundres Plackes and half plackes [Fr. patards et demi patards].

1526 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 1149 Double plakks or Carolus shall be current for 4d. as now.

a1600 ( Rec. Bluemantle Pursuivant (Julius) in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 388 He gave to the Kinges ofycers of armes viijcc doble plakkys of mony of Flaunders.

2. Scottish and English regional (northern). A small billon coin issued by James III of Scotland; (also) a small copper coin current in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries worth four Scots pennies. Now historical.In quot. 1887, a coin of the lowest denomination.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > Scottish coins > [noun] > other Scottish coins

sterling1387

plack1473

sture1493

stick1494

bawbee1542

hardhead1559

nonsunt1559

liona1572

atchison1600

turner1631

turnover1640

bodle1650

forty penny piece1681

rigmariea1682

cross-daggera1690

mark1762

1473 Sc. Acts James III (1814) II. 105/1 As tuiching þe plakkis & þe new pennyis, þe lordis thinkis þat þe striking of þame be cessit.

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 93 Sum penis furth a pan boddum to prent fals plakkis.

1540 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 140 A bende placke whyche ys in my purse.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 169 The wyffis wald refuse the said cunzie quhilk was callit ane Couchrinis plak and said to him that it wald be cryit doun.

1583 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scot. (1876) I. 159 That all the saides twelf pennie peices babeis and plackes with the thre pennie grottis and half plackes now current salbe brocht in to his hienes cunyehous..and thairof new money to be cunyeit.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 283 The Scots haue of long time had..Placks, which they esteemed for 4 pence, but 3 of them make an English penny.

a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 210 One Bodel they call Tway-pennies;..2 Bodels a Plack.

a1706 R. Sempill Life Pyper of Kilbarchan ix At bridals he wan many placks.

1786 A. de Cardonnel Numismata Scotiæ Pref. 33 The plack is an ideal coin at this present time in Scotland.

1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xviii. 310 After collecting all the placks and boddles of the party, (little pieces of copper coin, with the head of Charles II. on one side, and the Scotch thistle on the other).

1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 258 He rypit his siller spung for a plack.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iv. 80 There was the weekly collection at the kirk services, where placks and doits and bodles and a variety of debased coins clinked in the plate at the kirk door.

1955 I. H. Stewart Sc. Coinage 60 At about this time [c. 1470], two new billon denominations were added to the Scottish coinage, the plack and half-plack... The types of both coins were a crowned escutcheon with a crown above and crosses beside, and on the reverse a floreate cross fourchee with a central panel enclosing a saltire and crowns in each angle.

1998 N. Holmes Sc. Coins 28 There are no surviving documents alluding to base metal coinage from the reign of James IV (1488–1513), although both placks and pennies were clearly issued in very large numbers.

3. Scottish and English regional (northern). A negligible sum of money; a thing of very small value, the smallest possible amount. See also Phrases 1. Formerly also in Irish English.Chiefly in negative contexts. Sc. National Dict. at Plack n. records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland, Angus, and Perthshire in 1966 (cf. Phrases 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum

parcelc1400

plack1530

dodkinc1555

triflec1595

denier1597

driblet1659

song1698

Flanders-fortune1699

pin money1702

doit1728

drab1828

picayune1838

sprat1883

shoestring1904

peanut1910

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth

ivy-leafc1000

needle?c1225

sloec1250

peasea1275

strawc1290

bean1297

nutc1300

buttonc1330

leekc1330

trifle1375

cress1377

goose-wing1377

sop1377

niflec1395

vetcha1400

a pin's head (also point)c1450

trump1513

plack1530

toy1530

blue point1532

grey groat1546

cherry-stone1607

jiggalorum1613

candle-enda1625

peppercorn1638

sponge1671

sneeshing1686

snottera1689

catchpenny1705

potato1757

snuff1809

pinhead1828

traneen1837

a hill of beans1863

gubbins1918

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot

cornc888

grotc888

prickleOE

prickOE

pointc1300

grain1377

hair1377

motec1390

twynt1399

mitec1400

tarec1405

drop1413

ace?1440

tittlea1450

whita1450

jot1526

Jack1530

plack1530

farthingc1540

minima1585

scintil1599

atom1626

scintillation1650

punct1653

doit1660

scintilla1674

rap1792

haet1802

dottle1808

smiggot1823

hooter1839

heartbeat1855

pick1866

filament1868

hoot1878

1530 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 108 Jhone..said..that the hors suld nocht be the vor ane plauk, for ve haif na haist in our rydding.

1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxviii. 118 Plaitter nor pois we neuer left ane plak.

1689 Irish Hudibras 11 What thought of Ready nere a plack.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 175 Nae Howdie gets a social night, Or plack frae them.

1806 A. Douglas Poems 37 What use is Hebrew to a weaver? 'Twill no ae plack avail you ever.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. iii. 17 He was na a plack the waur.

1890 A. Lowson John Guidfollow 35 Wi' no a plack i' the warld tae ca' yer ain.

4. Scottish and English regional (northern). Money, worldly goods. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1815 J. Gerrond Poems 130 Better dwell in Indian clime Than here in wa's o' stane and lime Without the placks.

1859 Arbroath Guide 10 Dec. 4 Sae she wad mak her plack, and turn Her spinnin' wheel.

1877 A. G. Murdoch Laird's Lykewake 198 The haill o' my haudin an' warldly plack. Button'd beneath the coat on my back.

1910 R. Quin Borderland 83 I ne'er again may see the frien'..Whase cheerfu' word—and ready plack Some comfort aye ensured me.

Phrases

In various proverbial phrases.

P1. As the type of a small or insignificant amount, as not worth a plack, not to care a plack, etc.

ΚΠ

1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 307 He wald nocht mend thame worth ane plack.

1851 W. Anderson Rhymes 133 Nae a preen nor a plack car't the Man o' the Well.

1878 C. Fleming Poems 264 There's no ane left noo worth a plack.

1922 G. P. Dunbar Whiff o' Doric 96 I carena a plack nor a farthin', nor baith.

P2. two and a plack: any amount, as much as you like, a great deal.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > small

(and) odd money1447

two and a plack1692

red cent1837

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

child's gamec1380

motec1390

mitec1400

child's playc1405

trufferyc1429

toyc1450

curiosity1474

fly-winga1500

neither mass nor matins1528

boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

nincety-fincety1566

mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

minuity1612

feathera1616

fillip1621

rattle1622

fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

rush candle1628

punctilio1631

rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

emptiness1646

fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 106 I'le hazard twa and a plack.

1794 ‘Tam Thrum’ Look afore ye Loup 6 There's some o' them wou'd gie twa an' a plack they had never seen't.

1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vi. 132 I would not Sir Halbert had seen her..for two and a plack.

1896 A. Cheviot Prov. & Pop. Rhymes Scotl. 185 I wouldna lose thee for twa and a plack.

P3. plack and bawbee, plack and bodle, etc.: in full, every penny, to the last farthing.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > in full or every penny

plack and bodle1787

1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 6 Ise frankly own mysel his debtor For plack an' boddle.

1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxx. 264 Plack and bawbee to the uttermost will be required aff ye.

1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin iv It's a' here, Mr. Bodkin—every plack an' bawbee o't.

1895 G. Williams Scarbraes 28 Gin ye're fined, I'se pay't, plack and farthing.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, in the sense ‘of the value of or costing a plack’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

sleeveless1551

baggage1553

paltering1553

piddling1559

twopenny1560

paltry1565

rubbish1565

baggagely1573

pelfish1577

halfpenny1579

palting1579

baubling1581

three-halfpenny1581

pitiful1582

triobolar1585

squirting1589

not worth a lousea1592

hedge1596

cheap1597

peddling1597

dribbling1600

mean1600

rascally1600

three-farthingc1600

draughty1602

dilute1605

copper1609

peltry?a1610

threepenny1613

pelsy1631

pimping1640

triobolary1644

pigwidgeon1647

dustya1649

fiddling1652

puddlinga1653

insignificant1658

piteous1667

snotty1681

scrubbed1688

dishonourable1699

scrub1711

footy1720

fouty1722

rubbishing1731

chuck-farthing1748

rubbishy1753

shabby1753

scrubby1754

poxya1758

rubbishly1777

waff-like1808

trinkety1817

meanish1831

one-eyed1843

twiddling1844

measly1847

poking1850

picayunish1852

vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

1539 Haddington Burgh Rec. 29 Jan. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Plak That na breid be bakin bot plak breid, tua peny breid, and peny breid.

1551 MS Rec. Aberdeen XXIV in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 502/1 His wyf brewit plak-aill.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 204 His plak Pardonis, are bot lardonis, Of new fund vanitie.

1604 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 130 That ane plak candill be provydit ilk nycht to the evening prayeris.

1690 in M. A. Forbes Curiosities Scots Charta Chest For 6 plack pyes [ed. pigs] 00.02.00.

1706 J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems i. 23 Panches, Saucers, Sheepheads, Cheats, Plack-pyes.

1731 Old Edinb. Club (1930) 72 For bread to said 24 persons for two days 48 plack loaves is Reckon'd necessary, being 16d.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. vii. 198 He asked..‘Whether he could have a plack-pie’?

1849 Cases Court of Session 11 29 A bill for letters of loosing of arrestment was a plack bill.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 5/3 From ancient times the revenues in Scotch burghs were derived from small imposts, variously called petty customs, plack dues, and so on,..levied on animals and goods entering the burgh.

C2.

† plack's-worth n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1643 in C. K. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Belief Witchcraft in Scotl. (1884) 116 For sending back a plack's worth of salt.

1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) v. 30 Swieth Maggy gae mak me a cogfu' o' milk brose, an' a placks worth o' spice in them.

1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton i. iii Except a dry paternoster, and a drap holy water to sloken't wi' nae a plack's-worth we get frae ony o' them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plack
释义	plackn.¹ Brit. /plak/, U.S. /plæk/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s placke, late Middle English–1600s plak, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s plakk, late Middle English– plack; Sc pre-1700 plac, pre-1700 plaik, pre-1700 plak, pre-1700 plake, pre-1700 plauk, pre-1700 1700s– plack, 1900s– plock (Galloway). Origin: A borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch placke. Etymology: < Middle Dutch placke, plac small coin (originally Flemish) of varying value, current in the 14th–15th cent. (Dutch regional (Holland) †plak small coin, e.g. in 19th-cent. use in Amsterdam denoting a coin worth two and a half cents), transferred use (the original sense probably being ‘flat disc’) of placke , plac stain, spot (Dutch plak : see pleck n.). The Middle Dutch word was also borrowed into other European languages; compare Middle Low German placke , plak small Flemish coin (1424 or earlier), also coin blank, Middle French, French plaque small Flemish coin (1425; also 1478 as plack ), post-classical Latin placca , placka , plaka (from c1370 in Dutch sources; 15th cent. in a British source). Compare placard n., placket n.¹ †1. A coin current in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Dutch coins seskyn1413 dodkin1415 plackc1470 Rhenish1479 Utrecht1493 Utrecht noble1494 stiver1502 doit1594 stooter1598 doublejee1707 double shilling1744 William1836 steever1892 c1470 W. Wey Itineraries 1 At Calyse ye schal haue..for a doket xxiiij plackys, that ys best money vn to Brugys. At Brugeys ye schal haue as meny of plackys for a dim. nowbyl or a doket as ye had at Calyse. For a gyldern xix plackys. 1479 R. Cely Let. 14 June in Cely Lett. (1975) 53 Item vj docatys..xxxiij s. Item in plakys v li..v li. Fl. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 16 Thise ben grotes of englond. Suche ther be of flaundres Plackes and half plackes [Fr. patards et demi patards]. 1526 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 1149 Double plakks or Carolus shall be current for 4d. as now. a1600 ( Rec. Bluemantle Pursuivant (Julius) in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 388 He gave to the Kinges ofycers of armes viijcc doble plakkys of mony of Flaunders. 2. Scottish and English regional (northern). A small billon coin issued by James III of Scotland; (also) a small copper coin current in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries worth four Scots pennies. Now historical.In quot. 1887, a coin of the lowest denomination. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > Scottish coins > [noun] > other Scottish coins sterling1387 plack1473 sture1493 stick1494 bawbee1542 hardhead1559 nonsunt1559 liona1572 atchison1600 turner1631 turnover1640 bodle1650 forty penny piece1681 rigmariea1682 cross-daggera1690 mark1762 1473 Sc. Acts James III (1814) II. 105/1 As tuiching þe plakkis & þe new pennyis, þe lordis thinkis þat þe striking of þame be cessit. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 93 Sum penis furth a pan boddum to prent fals plakkis. 1540 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 140 A bende placke whyche ys in my purse. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 169 The wyffis wald refuse the said cunzie quhilk was callit ane Couchrinis plak and said to him that it wald be cryit doun. 1583 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scot. (1876) I. 159 That all the saides twelf pennie peices babeis and plackes with the thre pennie grottis and half plackes now current salbe brocht in to his hienes cunyehous..and thairof new money to be cunyeit. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 283 The Scots haue of long time had..Placks, which they esteemed for 4 pence, but 3 of them make an English penny. a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 210 One Bodel they call Tway-pennies;..2 Bodels a Plack. a1706 R. Sempill Life Pyper of Kilbarchan ix At bridals he wan many placks. 1786 A. de Cardonnel Numismata Scotiæ Pref. 33 The plack is an ideal coin at this present time in Scotland. 1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xviii. 310 After collecting all the placks and boddles of the party, (little pieces of copper coin, with the head of Charles II. on one side, and the Scotch thistle on the other). 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 258 He rypit his siller spung for a plack. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iv. 80 There was the weekly collection at the kirk services, where placks and doits and bodles and a variety of debased coins clinked in the plate at the kirk door. 1955 I. H. Stewart Sc. Coinage 60 At about this time [c. 1470], two new billon denominations were added to the Scottish coinage, the plack and half-plack... The types of both coins were a crowned escutcheon with a crown above and crosses beside, and on the reverse a floreate cross fourchee with a central panel enclosing a saltire and crowns in each angle. 1998 N. Holmes Sc. Coins 28 There are no surviving documents alluding to base metal coinage from the reign of James IV (1488–1513), although both placks and pennies were clearly issued in very large numbers. 3. Scottish and English regional (northern). A negligible sum of money; a thing of very small value, the smallest possible amount. See also Phrases 1. Formerly also in Irish English.Chiefly in negative contexts. Sc. National Dict. at Plack n. records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland, Angus, and Perthshire in 1966 (cf. Phrases 1). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum parcelc1400 plack1530 dodkinc1555 triflec1595 denier1597 driblet1659 song1698 Flanders-fortune1699 pin money1702 doit1728 drab1828 picayune1838 sprat1883 shoestring1904 peanut1910 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth ivy-leafc1000 needle?c1225 sloec1250 peasea1275 strawc1290 bean1297 nutc1300 buttonc1330 leekc1330 trifle1375 cress1377 goose-wing1377 sop1377 niflec1395 vetcha1400 a pin's head (also point)c1450 trump1513 plack1530 toy1530 blue point1532 grey groat1546 cherry-stone1607 jiggalorum1613 candle-enda1625 peppercorn1638 sponge1671 sneeshing1686 snottera1689 catchpenny1705 potato1757 snuff1809 pinhead1828 traneen1837 a hill of beans1863 gubbins1918 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 1530 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 108 Jhone..said..that the hors suld nocht be the vor ane plauk, for ve haif na haist in our rydding. 1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxviii. 118 Plaitter nor pois we neuer left ane plak. 1689 Irish Hudibras 11 What thought of Ready nere a plack. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 175 Nae Howdie gets a social night, Or plack frae them. 1806 A. Douglas Poems 37 What use is Hebrew to a weaver? 'Twill no ae plack avail you ever. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. iii. 17 He was na a plack the waur. View more context for this quotation 1890 A. Lowson John Guidfollow 35 Wi' no a plack i' the warld tae ca' yer ain. 4. Scottish and English regional (northern). Money, worldly goods. Now rare. ΚΠ 1815 J. Gerrond Poems 130 Better dwell in Indian clime Than here in wa's o' stane and lime Without the placks. 1859 Arbroath Guide 10 Dec. 4 Sae she wad mak her plack, and turn Her spinnin' wheel. 1877 A. G. Murdoch Laird's Lykewake 198 The haill o' my haudin an' warldly plack. Button'd beneath the coat on my back. 1910 R. Quin Borderland 83 I ne'er again may see the frien'..Whase cheerfu' word—and ready plack Some comfort aye ensured me. Phrases In various proverbial phrases. P1. As the type of a small or insignificant amount, as not worth a plack, not to care a plack, etc. ΚΠ 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 307 He wald nocht mend thame worth ane plack. 1851 W. Anderson Rhymes 133 Nae a preen nor a plack car't the Man o' the Well. 1878 C. Fleming Poems 264 There's no ane left noo worth a plack. 1922 G. P. Dunbar Whiff o' Doric 96 I carena a plack nor a farthin', nor baith. P2. two and a plack: any amount, as much as you like, a great deal. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > small (and) odd money1447 two and a plack1692 red cent1837 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 106 I'le hazard twa and a plack. 1794 ‘Tam Thrum’ Look afore ye Loup 6 There's some o' them wou'd gie twa an' a plack they had never seen't. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vi. 132 I would not Sir Halbert had seen her..for two and a plack. 1896 A. Cheviot Prov. & Pop. Rhymes Scotl. 185 I wouldna lose thee for twa and a plack. P3. plack and bawbee, plack and bodle, etc.: in full, every penny, to the last farthing. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > in full or every penny plack and bodle1787 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 6 Ise frankly own mysel his debtor For plack an' boddle. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxx. 264 Plack and bawbee to the uttermost will be required aff ye. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin iv It's a' here, Mr. Bodkin—every plack an' bawbee o't. 1895 G. Williams Scarbraes 28 Gin ye're fined, I'se pay't, plack and farthing. Compounds C1. General attributive, in the sense ‘of the value of or costing a plack’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 1539 Haddington Burgh Rec. 29 Jan. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Plak That na breid be bakin bot plak breid, tua peny breid, and peny breid. 1551 MS Rec. Aberdeen XXIV in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 502/1 His wyf brewit plak-aill. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 204 His plak Pardonis, are bot lardonis, Of new fund vanitie. 1604 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 130 That ane plak candill be provydit ilk nycht to the evening prayeris. 1690 in M. A. Forbes Curiosities Scots Charta Chest For 6 plack pyes [ed. pigs] 00.02.00. 1706 J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems i. 23 Panches, Saucers, Sheepheads, Cheats, Plack-pyes. 1731 Old Edinb. Club (1930) 72 For bread to said 24 persons for two days 48 plack loaves is Reckon'd necessary, being 16d. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. vii. 198 He asked..‘Whether he could have a plack-pie’? 1849 Cases Court of Session 11 29 A bill for letters of loosing of arrestment was a plack bill. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 5/3 From ancient times the revenues in Scotch burghs were derived from small imposts, variously called petty customs, plack dues, and so on,..levied on animals and goods entering the burgh. C2. † plack's-worth n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1643 in C. K. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Belief Witchcraft in Scotl. (1884) 116 For sending back a plack's worth of salt. 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) v. 30 Swieth Maggy gae mak me a cogfu' o' milk brose, an' a placks worth o' spice in them. 1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton i. iii Except a dry paternoster, and a drap holy water to sloken't wi' nae a plack's-worth we get frae ony o' them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † plackn.² Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare Middle French, French plaque (see plaque n.), but this is apparently not attested in sense ‘map’ or ‘plan’, and the semantic development would be difficult to account for; the same applies to Middle French, French plaquette (see plaquette n.). Compare placket n.² Obsolete. rare. = placket n.² ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram plat1508 plot1551 plack1552 placket1552 lineament1570 draught1580 landscape1642 plan1664 speculum1676 chart1880 1552 T. Barnabe in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. ii. App. E. 154 He sent me thither upon the kings cost: and I drew a plack of yt, and brought yt to hym. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † plackn.³ Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Scottish. Obsolete. rare. A large pile of hay which is ready to be carried and stored. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw feald?14.. bottlec1405 bunch?a1505 straw wisp?a1513 stook1571 wad1573 botillage1576 windling1645 pottle1730 bolting1784 strike1817 windle1825 wap1828 hay-pack1841 wake1847 plack1871 tibbin1900 1871 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 213 Rickles, the biggest of all the cocks, which are run together into placks, the shapeless heaps from which the hay is carted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.¹c1470n.²1552n.³1871
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