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- (transitive, dialectal, Northern England and Scotland) To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, dialectal, Northern England and Scotland) To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To bewitch, to charm.
- (transitive, obsolete) To forbid, to prohibit; to oppose. [15th–19th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To say bad things about; to slander.
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