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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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budge kain
noun
a public house
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etymology:
budge
a Cant word for ‘drink’ +
kane
‘a house’; Grose and Egan (1823) attest the forms
budge
‘drink’ and
budge kain
‘a public house’ as ‘Scotch Cant’