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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bing feck eelreelee
verb phrase
the Devil take your soul
19
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etymology:
bing
‘the Devil’ +
feck
‘take’ +
eelreelee
‘the soul’; collected by Simson (1865)
note:
Grose (1811), Grose and Egan (1823) attest
bing
‘to go’ as Cant.