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Monday Quote

In Charles Mackay's 1877 book The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and of their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, I ran into the curious low slang word chickaleary "aged pedestrians on winter mornings" (evidently, a collective noun).

~ Anatoly Liberman, from Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology

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