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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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Jockie
noun
a Gypsy, vagrant beggar or pedlar:
The tribe of Gypsies, jockies. Or cairds…
;
The jockies in the fury Rave an ruggit.
19- Borders.
etymology:
Scots; diminutive of Jock