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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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muskries
noun plural
police
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musiker
etymology:
Partridge:
muskra
A policeman: market traders slang’: 20
th
century: M.T. ‘A corruption of Romany
moskero, mooshkero
‘a constable’....’; attested by
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