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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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callo gaugie
noun
a Black man
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kallo
and
gadgie
etymology:
perhaps a developmen from Sanskrit
kalmasa
‘black’ and Hindi
kālā
‘black’; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants