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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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speen
verb
,
past tense
spent
to wean an infant or suckling animal:
Ah've speened aw the grandkinchins aff the breast milk mysel, jist like ma granny did fer me an ma mither did fer mine.
16-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
BS in TDITA
and
ET