"camstairy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more camstairy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most camstairy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "camstairy (comparative more camstairy, superlative most camstairy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, John Oxenham, Pearl of Pearl Island:",
          "text": "\"Ah!\" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--\"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:",
          "text": "My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
      "id": "en-camstairy-en-adj-HX2zIFcy",
      "links": [
        [
          "unruly",
          "unruly"
        ],
        [
          "unmanageable",
          "unmanageable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Scotland) unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "camstairy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more camstairy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most camstairy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "camstairy (comparative more camstairy, superlative most camstairy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, John Oxenham, Pearl of Pearl Island:",
          "text": "\"Ah!\" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--\"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:",
          "text": "My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unruly",
          "unruly"
        ],
        [
          "unmanageable",
          "unmanageable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, Scotland) unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "camstairy"
}