a. Sc. Also -stairie, -starie, -stary, -steary, -steirie. [Derivation uncertain: first element app. CAM crooked, awry.] Obstinately perverse, unruly or wilful; fractious.

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1776.  Herd, Coll. Sc. Songs. When she is fou she is unco camstarie.

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1844.  Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. 12. 100. He had a wild, camstary pony.

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1863.  Miss Tytler, in Gd. Words, Oct., 709/1. No wonder he is camsteary.

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1868.  G. Macdonald, R. Falconer, I. 195. ‘What are ye sae camstairie for?’

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