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reej, rege, reejee noun currency a pound note 20-: It’s gonnae tak’ us twenty reejes tae feek tae t’ither vile. And twenty reej back doon again. [It is going to cost twenty pounds to get to the other town. And twenty pounds back again.] 20- Compare rege etymology: origin obscure; collected by EMcC/PS; attested by CH and BS in TDITA; form rege only attested by SR note:

Form reej attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) with the same meaning, but this must surely be an historical memory.