verb
1 to frighten, terrify la19-.
2 to humble, humiliate: Ma, I counldnae stand tae be snooled [subdued, overawed] and trooshed wi ony man 20-.
adjective afraid, scared: Oh, shanees Bessie, I’m thrash. la19-. etymology: Romany atraish ‘afraid’ and shared with English Gypsy Crofton & Smart (1875); from Sanskrit tras ‘to fear’, atrasit ‘frightened’; adjective with form trash attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies and collected by McCormick; verb and adjective attested by SR and BW; adjective with forms thrash and trash attested by BS in TDITA, attested and collected by JS note:
Smart & Crofton (1875) also collected the forms Atrásh and Trash adj., ‘afraid’ from English Gypsies.