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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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beenship davies
in greetings
good day!
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etymology:
beenship
‘good, great, grand’ +
davies
‘day’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants