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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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gry nakkin
noun
a horse dealer
20
.
etymology:
gry
+
nakkin
is a variant spelling of
naggen
,
nawken
‘a tinkler, Traveller or Gypsy’; collected by
EMcC/PS
note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites this form with the same meaning’.