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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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gawver
noun
a pickpocket
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etymology:
origin obscure; only collected by Simson (1865); possibly a development from English
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as defined in the OED ‘
Thieves’ slang
. A confederate who screens the operations of a thief or pickpocket.’