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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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greeshoch
noun
the glowing embers of a wood or peat fire:
The wife washed them, gutted them
[lizards]
and then just threw them on the greeshoch.
19-
.
etymology:
from Scots Gaelic
grìosach
; attested by
SS