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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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lowpin chaet
noun
a frog
20
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etymology:
Scots
lowp
‘a leap, to leap’ in Older Scots from 1375 +
chaet
‘a thing, anything’; collected by
EMcC/PS
; attested by
BS in TDITA
note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) also cites this defines it as ‘a jumping thing’.