A Scottish or dialect term of unclear meaning, possibly related to caper or a folk name for a plant or condition.
Possibly from Scots dialect combining 'caper' with another element, though the etymology is obscure and may be a regional variant or folk term.
Caperdewsie appears in some Scottish dictionaries but its meaning is genuinely lost to history—it's a linguistic ghost of local plant or plant lore!
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