a. Sc. [f. CREESH sb. + -Y1. In Gael. créisidh.] Greasy.

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1535.  Lyndesay, Satyre, 140. I ken weill, be his creischie mow, He hes bene at ane feast.

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a. 1605.  Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 747. Creishie soutter, shoe cloutter, minch moutter.

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1786.  Burns, Ordination, i. Wabsters … pour your creeshie nations … Swith to the Laigh Kirk.

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1891.  [R. Bird], in Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Dec., 2/2.

        The love of gold gets mickle blame
  When little fault abounds,
But filthy lucre is the name
  For Scotland’s creeshy pounds.

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  b.  subst.

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1890.  Scot. N. & Q., Aug., 53. Creeshie was the name given to boys and girls who worked in the carding and spinning departments [of woollen wills].

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