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varro, varrie noun flour 20. etymology: Romany; origin obscure; perhaps a development from Latin farina ‘flour, meal’; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies and Pertshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the forms Jaro and Aro meaning ‘meal’ from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the forms Voro and Vóro from English Gypsies.