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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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theeki
noun
a policeman
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feekie
etymology:
origin obscure and perhaps a mishearing or misreading of
feekie
; perhaps a development from the obsolete Scots
beakie
with the same meaning; only collected by McCormick