1809 A. EDMONSTON Zetland Islands II 74. Certain names must not be mentioned while they are setting their lines, especially the minister … and many others equally unmeaning.
1883 J. R. TUDOR Orkneys and Shetland 166 [Shetland] When setting their lines they avoided, and do still, mentioning certain objects, except by certain special words. Thus … a minister [is called] upstanda, hoydeen, or prestingolva.
1909 N & Q 10th ser. XII 483 [Stromness, Orkney] Fishermen count it unlucky to mention ‘minister’ or ‘kirk’ by these terms on board the boat.
1963 Man, c. 40 [Aberdeen] The Shetland fishermen are wary of mentioning the word ‘minister’ They refer to him as ‘the upstander’.Cf. ‘CHURCH’. taboo word; CLERGYMAN.
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