orp

To complain, grumble, or be discontented.

Verb

  1. To complain, grumble, or be discontented.
    • My heart is ever orpin' on / The bonnie banks o' Tay. - 1895, Robert Ford, Tayside Songs and Other Verses, Alexander Gardner, page 12:
  2. To be in ill health; to be sickly and shrivelled.
    • 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:

Origin

Unknown; possibly related to warp.

Forms

orps orping orped