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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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limmerick
noun
a rascal:
A cheeky wee limmerick.
20-
.
etymology:
Scots; Older Scots
lymmar
‘a rogue, 1438; of a woman, 1540’; origin obscure; only attested by
SR