Sc. and north. dial. Also 6 suddill, 8 sudle. [Immediate source uncertain. Cf. MHG. sudeln, sudlen to wallow in mire, G. sudeln to soil, defile.] trans. To soil, sully, defile. Hence Suddled ppl. a.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. ii. 124. That … I may … in the dusty puldyr … Suddill and fyle hys crysp and ȝallow hayr.
1696. A. Telfair, True Relat. Appar., 10. Seven small bones, with Blood, and some Flesh, all closed in a peice of Old suddled Paper.
1722. W. Hamilton, Wallace, 12. She … A sudled Curch o’er Head and Neck let fall. [Cf. SUDDLY, quot. c. 1470.]
c. 1820. Hogg, Poems (1865), 279/2. His gravat was suddled.
a. 1825. Ld. Thomas & Fair Annet, vi., in Child, Ballads (1885), II. 186/1. She must put on her suddled silks, That she wears every day.
