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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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friens
[freens]
noun plural
blood relations:
Do you no ken he’s too sib a freen tae you? Your weans will be all deformed.
[Don’t you know he’s too close a relation to you? Your children will be deformed.]
15-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
SS
and
BW