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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bobambie
noun
a fool, an idiot:
’Don’t you know it’s unlucky to fight at a funeral? But you thickened bobambies wouldn’t ken that’
20-
.
etymology:
origin obscure; perhaps a development from Scots
bam
; only attested by
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