Sc. [f. next vb.] Bustle, fuss (Jam.).
1719. Hamilton, Ep. to Ramsay, 24 July.
When I receivd thy kind epistle, | |
It made me dance, and sing, and whistle; | |
O sic a fike and sic a fistle | |
I had about it! |
1768. A. Ross, Helenore, I. 35.
The oddest fike an fisle, that eer was seen, | |
Was by the mither an two grandys taen. |