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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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fleg
noun
a fright:
Tessa got sic
[such]
a fleg wi the auld man’s ghost that haunted the place that she never ever worked late there...
18-
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etymology:
Scots; origin obscure;
fleig
‘to scare’ first appears in Older Scots in 1600; attested by
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