uppitting

Updated: May 23, 2025

For some time we knocked in vain no answer was made. At length, our knockings were answered by a female voice "What want ye here at this time o' nicht, disturbing a lone woman?" "My good woman," I replied, "we are strangers, who know not where we are. Be so kind as open the door to us." "Gae 'wa gae 'wa; I will do nae sic thing; I hae nae uppitting for ye."

Various - Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III