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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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shan yaffin
noun
a mongrel dog
20-
.
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been yaffin
etymology:
Cant
shan
= bad +
yaffin
= a dog; collected by
EMcC/PS
; attested by
BS in TDITA
note:
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) defines this as ‘a dog, a mutt’.