Sc. Obs. = ‘Thief’s neck,’ one fit for the gallows: a term of opprobrium.
In quots. represented as the cry of the tewhit or lapwing.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 823. The Tuchet and the gukkit Golk…. Callit him [the Rook] thryss thevisnek, to thrawe in a widdy.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 39. The tuechitis cryit theuis nek, quhen the piettis clattrit.
