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avree, awree verb run away; leave, go: nash avree – hornies binging [run away! police coming!] la19-. Compare abree etymology: also attested in Romany but it is possibly originally a development of Romany abri ‘outside, outdoors’; Scottish Gypsies, in the nineteenth century, had jaw avree with the same meaning; also attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; forms avree, awree attested in Shelta; form avree attested by BS in TDITA; JS, ET and BW; collected by EMcC/PS note:

Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form avrí ‘away’ from English Gypsies. Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests avree ‘away’.