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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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crine
verb
shrink, shrivel:
My inside was all crined into a knot with embarrassment...
18-
.
etymology:
Scots; possibly a development from Gaelic
crìon
‘little, withered’; attested by
JS
and
BW