A variant Scottish dialectal term possibly related to exhaustion, fatigue, or being overcome.
Scottish variant of 'forjaskit' or related term, showing how the same word had multiple spellings in dialectal Scottish English. The root meaning likely relates to extreme tiredness or being worn down.
Words like 'forjesket' show that Scottish English wasn't just a softer version of English—it had completely different words for describing states nobody else had words for, which is why Scots still sounds foreign to other English speakers.
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