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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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hinging stanes
noun plural
testicles and sometimes used as an abusive term of address:
I said the drink would kill you. Do you believe me now, hingin stanes?
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etymology:
Scots, literally ‘hanging stones’; attested by
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