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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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lobby
noun
the internal hallway inside a house or flat:
‘
Listen, that’s machine-gun fire.’ So we went and sat in the lobby with our backs against the wall
20-
.
etymology:
possibly only Scots in this usage; attested by
SS
and
BW