bawty

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bawty (plural bawties)

  1. (Scotland) A dog.
    Bourdna wi' bawty lest he bite ye.
    Well, he's grown into such a nice bawty.
    Some drunken idiot ran over my son's bawty.
    • 2008, Alexander Hislop, The proverbs of Scotland[1]:
      He's like the wife's bawty—kens naething about it.

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