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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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pluffan-chaet
,
fluffen chaet
noun
a tobacco pipe
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etymology:
pluffan
‘tobacco’
+
chaet
‘a thing, anything’
;
literally ‘tobacco thing’; attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler Gypsies