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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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ticky
,
tickie
noun
a threepenny coin
20
;
historical
.
etymology:
pre-decimalization (1971) a coin worth three old pennies; perhaps a development from
ticknie
‘small, little’; collected by
JS
; attested by
SR