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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bardie
adjective
rude, petulant, quarrelsome
18-
.
etymology:
Scots; origin uncertain; perhaps derived from
bard
‘in Lowland Scotland a derogatory term for a strolling minstrel’; collected by
EMcC/PS