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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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doomy
noun
the back of a person or animal
20-
.
etymology:
possibly a development from Romany
doomo
with the same meaning; attested by
SS
note:
Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form
Doomo, n.,
‘back’ from English Gypsies.