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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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auteenie
noun
a form of greeting:
The first expression which the Gipsies use in saluting one another, when they first meet, anywhere, is ‘Auteenie, auteenie.’
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etymology:
origin obscure; only collected by Simson (1865) from one of his informants