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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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cian ruish
noun
a pub or hotel
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kane
etymology:
first element possibly a form of Cant
kane
‘a house, a dwelling’; second element obscure but possibly related to Older Scots
ruche
‘a beehive’; only attested in Beurla Reagaird