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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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baurie mort
noun
1
a queen
20
.
2
a good wife
19
.
etymology:
barry
‘good’ +
mort
‘woman, wife, girl’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; sense 2 collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants