shilpit

[shil-pit]

adjective

Scot.

1. (of a person) sickly; puny; feeble.

2. (of liquor) weak; watery.

shilpit

/ ˈʃɪlpɪt /

adjective

1. puny; thin; weak-looking

Word History and Origins

Origin of shilpit¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of shilpit¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

If you’re shilpit, you’ll be able to shuck on your dead ronking kecks as far as your oxters.

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He is weather-seasoned like the red tod o' the hills; but ye are shilpit and silly, boy William, so ye had best bide wi' auld Jean when ye can.

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Nor, probably, would any really intelligent possessor arrange his largest bins for this kind, which at its best is a very exquisite vin de liqueur, but which few people wish to drink constantly; and which at its worst, or even in mediocre condition, is very poor tipple—"shilpit," as Peter Peebles most unjustly characterises sherry in Redgauntlet.

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Whatna shilpit man's this that Leevie's gotten for her new jo?

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I have never written to Sir Walter, for I knowPg 306 he has a thousand things, and I a thousand nothings, to do; but I hope to see him at Abbotsford before very long, and I will sweat his claret for him, though Italian abstemiousness has made my brain but a shilpit concern for a Scotch sitting 'inter pocula.'

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