"camstairy" meaning in English

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        "4": "crooked"
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  "etymology_text": "From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more camstairy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    {
      "form": "most camstairy",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "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wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--\"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.",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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
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        "unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
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          "unruly",
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          "unmanageable",
          "unmanageable"
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        "(archaic, Scotland) unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
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        "Scotland",
        "archaic"
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  "word": "camstairy"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "most camstairy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unruly; unmanageable"
      ],
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        "(archaic, Scotland) unruly; unmanageable"
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  "word": "camstairy"
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