sitten
adjEtymology From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Equivalent to sit + -en (past participle). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.
1
Northern England, Scotland, UK, Dialectal Seated.
- The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155
- He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.c1560, A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38
2
Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
- Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.1671, J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15:
- Derived terms
- well-sitten, sitten-up