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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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boag
noun
a cockroach
20-
.
etymology:
possibly a development from Scots
boag
‘a bug, a louse’; attested by
BS in TDITA
note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) also cites this with the same meaning.