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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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forky gollach
noun
an earwig:
‘I hope there’s no forky gollachs in here!’ she whispers...
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etymology:
Scots; English diminitive of
fork
+ Scots Gaelic
gobhlach
‘forked’; attested by
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