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baurie rajah noun a king: I [Simson (1865)] will relate two well-authenticated anecdotes of this baurie rajah, this king of the Scottish Gipsies; who was, in all probability a descendant of Towla Bailow*... 19-20. Compare barry rye etymology: barry ‘big, great’ + rajah ‘an Indian king or prince’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants note:

According to Simson (1865) this is the origin of the name Baillie which was in former times the the name of a large Gypsy tribe.