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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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foy
noun
a farewell party
la18-
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etymology:
Scots; early Modern English; Middle Dutch
foye, voye
‘a celebration of a departure’; Old French
voie
‘a journey’; also collected by
EMcC/PS
; attested by
JS