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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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baurie forest
noun
a large town
19
.
etymology:
barry
‘big, great’ +
forest
which is possibly a development of Romany
foros
or
vauros
‘a city’; only collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants