Plenish
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To fill up, to stock or supply (something). Scotland, archaic
"By the time they went back to the bar the expressionless peasant behind it had set up two glasses and plenished them with yellow rum and sugar upon which he now poured hot water before pushing them forward and motioning to them with his head to drink."
- 2 Specifically, to stock land or a house (with livestock or furniture). Scotland
"No man ever saw Alison at any market in the countryside, and yet the Skerburnfoot was plenished yearly in all proper order."
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More examples"By the time they went back to the bar the expressionless peasant behind it had set up two glasses and plenished them with yellow rum and sugar upon which he now poured hot water before pushing them forward and motioning to them with his head to drink."
Etymology
Scots plenish, from pleniss- the stem of Anglo-Norman plenir in certain conjugated form, from plein (“full”). Compare replenish.
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