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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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eegees
noun plural
bed clothes
19
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etymology:
possibly a development of Romany
eezes
‘clothes’; only collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants
note:
Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form
eézae
‘clothes’ from English Gypsies.