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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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but-and-ben
noun
two-roomed cottage with usually only a room on either side of the entrance door:
The house was a but-and-ben with a little room in the middle.
la18-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
BW
and
DW