orp

orp

English

Etymology

Unknown; possibly related to warp.

Verb

orp (third-person singular simple present orps, present participle orping, simple past and past participle orped)

1. (Scotland) To complain, grumble, or be discontented.
   • 1895, Robert Ford, Tayside Songs and Other Verses, Alexander Gardner, page 12:

     My heart is ever orpin' on / The bonnie banks o' Tay.

2. (Scotland) To be in ill health; to be sickly and shrivelled.
   • 1820 November, Thomas Gillespie, “Sketches of Village Character”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 200:

     Of changling Imp—he spoke, no care could rear, / Which backward seemed to orp, from year to year.

References

• “orp”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “orp”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, OCLC 57069714.