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scallag
‖ ˈscallag [Gael. sgalag = Ir. sgológ. Cf. scoloc.] A predial bondsman in the Hebrides.1666 J. Fraser Polichron. (S.H.S.) 84 The very place named Bearn ni Scallag, that is, the Servants Gap, becaus the men who did the slaughter were servants and scallags. 1793 J. L. Buchanan Trav. W. Hebrides Introd...
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scoloc
‖ scoloc Hist. (ˈskɒləʊk) Also scoloch, scolog. [OIrish scolóc, f. scol school; cf. mod.Irish scológ, scalóg farmer, rustic, and scallag (though these may be of different origin).] (See quots.) Cf. Reg. Dunelm. De Cuthberti Vita (Surtees), p. 179: Clerici illi..qui Pictorum lingua Scollofthes cognom...
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scullogue
‖ scuˈllogue Obs. [Irish sgológ: cf. scallag, scoloc.] An Irish farm labourer.1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue i. (1666) 5 The [Irish] Rebels..met with my Mother, attended by two Scullogues, her menial servants. 1681 T. Dineley in Jrnl. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. (1858) I. 176 The scullogues, in digging for turf...
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