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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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been gourie
noun
1
a gentlewoman, a fine lady
20
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2
a gentleman
19
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etymology:
been
‘fine, good, costly rich, gentle’ +
guri
‘a girl’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; sense 2 collected by Simson (1865) and attested by 2 of his informants