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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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clooty-doll
noun
a doll made of rags or odds and ends of cloth:
Or my mither would get a puckle auld rags, cloots as we ca’d them. and we’d hae a clooty-doll. That was the best toys I had lang ago.
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etymology:
Scots; attested by
BS in TDITA