Fife Place-name Data

Kittlenaked

Kittlenaked CBE S NO529056 1 65m

Kittle Naked 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Kittlenaked 1805 RHP2148 [field due west of OS Pathf. Kittlenaked Wood, which is called simply ‘The fir planting’]
Kittlenaked 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc kittle + Sc nakit

A humorous name, perhaps something like ‘bare land, hard to deal with’ (Sc kittle ‘capricious, fickle, unreliable, risky, precarious, insecure’).

/ˈkɪtəl ˈnekɪt/[89]

This place-name appeared in printed volume 3

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