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mankeeper noun a lizard or newt: Then he tipped out the contents of the bag, and there before us were four dead mankeepers. 19-. etymology: Scots; Jamieson, writing in 1865, defines it as: ‘a designation given to the newt, or lizard, by the inhabitants of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire because they believed that it waited on the adder to warn man of the danger’; attested by BS in TDITA and SS; collected by EMcC/PS note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) attests this with the same meaning.