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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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grieve
noun
a farm manager, foreman:
Well, the grive cam’ doon and the fairmer says ...
[Well, the grieve came down and the farmer says ...]
la15-
.
etymology:
Scots; Old Northumbrian
grœfa
, West Saxon
grēfa
; attested by
BS in TDITA
and
BW