Sc. Obs. Forms: 5–6 truker, 6 trukour, treukour, truikour, -er, trouker, trucour, 7 trewker. [f. TROKE v. + -ER1.] A deceiver, cheat; a rascal, rogue.
c. 1470. Henryson, Mor. Fab., IX. (Wolf & Fox), xxii. Staf or sting yone truker for to strike.
1530. Lyndesay, Test. Papyngo, 1001. Agane our wyll, those treukouris bene intrusit.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 511. With diligence and bissie cuir tha woik, And mony trucour in the tyme tha tuik.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages, 78. The treuth now ȝe haue spyit Of that Truikour.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 221. Thir fallis trukeris quhilk cause ȝour grace to beleif ewill on my handis.
a. 1585. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 225. Thy doytit dytings soone denie, Trouker, or I thy trumperie trie.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., VIII. (S.T.S.), II. 58. Mony at this tyme mony trukour tragidies in the cuntrie stiret vp.
1650. Dalgety Sess. Rec., in W. Ross, Past. Wk. in Covenant. Times, ix. (1877), 172. William Skinstone … did sclandour him in calling him a trewker lowne.
