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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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clemmie
noun
a stone:
Mar the gaugie wi a clemmie.
[knock him over with a stone]
20-
.
etymology:
origin obscure; in the Roxburghshire Wordbook (1923), Watson suggests this a Cant word; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies