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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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forfochen
adjective
exhausted, worn out by work
la18-
.
etymology:
Scots; Older Scots has
forfochtin
from
circa
1420,
forfocht
from 1560, Middle English
forfoughten
,
forfohte
; attested by
JS
and
BW