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been yaffin noun a pedigree dog 20. Compare shan yaffin etymology: been ‘fine, good, costly rich, gentle’; second element from Scots yaff verb ‘of a dog, to bark’; also possibly found in Shelta; collected by EMcC/PS; attested by BS in TDITA note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites the form bene yaffin ‘a pure breed dog’.