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third-person singular simple present orps, present participle orping, simple past and past participle orped
(Scotland) To complain, grumble, or be discontented. quotations examples
My heart is ever orpin' on / The bonnie banks o' Tay.
1895, Robert Ford, Tayside Songs and Other Verses, Alexander Gardner, page 12
(Scotland) To be in ill health; to be sickly and shrivelled. quotations examples
Of changling Imp—he spoke, no care could rear, / Which backward seemed to orp, from year to year.
1820 November, Thomas Gillespie, “Sketches of Village Character”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 200