Skip to content
The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
Search for:
Search
Results
been looer chaetrie
noun
jewellery
20-
.
etymology:
been
‘
fine, good, costly rich, gentle
’ +
looer
‘money’ +
chaetrie
‘things’; attested by
BS in TDITA
who defines it as ‘good gold things’