ETYMOLOGY
from hurkle (to crouch, to stoop, to squat down)
EXAMPLE
“… Lang after peeping greke o’day,
In Hurkle Durkle Habbie lay,
Gae tae yer wark, ye dernan murkle,
And ly nae there in Hurkle Durkle. …”
Note: the phrase ‘in hurkle durkle‘ = in indolence
From: Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
By John Jamieson, 1825
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