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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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beenship rattie
,
beenship rat
in greetings
good evening!, good night!
19-20
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etymology:
beenship
‘good, great, grand ‘+
ratie
‘night’; attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies;
beensip rat
collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants