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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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gurdy
adjective
round, fat:
Weem had the best stones in all of Scotland for making a fireplace... big shiny gurdy ones.
20-
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etymology:
a development from Scots
gurthy
‘round, fat, corpulent’; attested by
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