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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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baurie raunie
noun
a queen
19-20
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etymology:
barry
‘big, fine’ + Romany
rawnie
‘a queen’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Simson (1865)