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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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blue death
noun
a death caused by cold:
‘Here’ she continued, handing me her plaid, ‘put them on before you get your blue death’.
la20-
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etymology:
blue
because of the colour’s association with coldness + English
death
; attested by
BW