An obsolete Scottish word meaning insane or mad — out of one's wits.
An obsolete Scottish word meaning insane or mad — out of one's wits. Used in older Scots literature and dialect speech. No longer in active use. The word appears in Robert Burns and other Scottish writers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The old man had gone completely hyte after the loss of his farm, according to the parish records.
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(slang) Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior.
'^ ; and in form geit Cld. (Jam.) 1. adj. Mad, out of one's senses ; gen. used advb. in phr. to have {be) gone gyte, to have gone mad, to have lost one's senses.
(UK, regional, obsolete) , mad, out of one's senses.
(Scotland) Slovenly; careless.
(obsolete, Scotland) insane or mad.
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