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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bicker
,
bickert
verb
to run; merrily, noisily:
Sometimes to where a wee bickerin burn
[stream]
noisily scolded every stone it louped
[leapt]
over.
la18-
.
etymology:
Scots; Older Scots; origin obscure; also attested by
JS
and
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