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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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yookie
noun
a rat:
Ah’m stumped
[as to what illness you are suffering from]
ye’ve no caught a disease from an auld yookie.
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lookie
etymology:
perhaps a used as a substitute because
rat
is a taboo word; attested by
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