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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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masser kier
noun
a butcher’s shop
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etymology:
possibly a development from Romany
mass
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‘meat’ +
keir
‘a house’; attested by Perthshire and Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies