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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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sneepa davies
noun
a white, snowy day
19
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etymology:
origin of first element obscure, possibly a development from Romany
eef
and
snaff
with the same meaning +
davies
‘a day’; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants