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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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mort’s toggerie
noun
a petticoat
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inside toggerie
etymology:
mort
‘woman, girl’ +
tuggery
‘clothes’; attested by
BS in TDITA
; collected by
EMcC/PS
note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites this form with the same meaning.