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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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back end
noun
the end of harvest, late autumn; October:
So I stayed there with the old folk all that back-end, and who came in the wintertime but my brother Sandy and Betsy!
19-
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etymology:
Scots; attested by
AS in TDITA
,
SS
and
DW