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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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winkler chaets
noun plural
spectacles
20-
.
etymology:
winkler
‘eye’ +
chaet
‘a thing’; also attested in Shelta and by
BS in TDITA
; collected by
EMcC/PS
note:
Attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) which he defines as: ‘eye things’.