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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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grad tom
noun
gold
20-
.
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cian tom
etymology:
first element possibly a development of Shelta
gaurt
‘gold’;
tom
is also attested in Shelta as ‘gold’; perhaps an element of rhyming here; compare
kane
‘a house’
;
collected by
TN