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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bulkie
noun
a constable
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19
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etymology:
possibly a development from an obsolete OED definition of
bulky
‘? Pompous, ‘big’, self-important. Obs.’ attested by Grose and Egan (1823) as ‘Scotch slang’