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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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conish cove
noun
a gentleman
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conachman
etymology:
perhaps the first element is a development from
conachman
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cove
‘a man’; attested by Grose and Egan (1823) as
Scotch Cant