Word: baulor
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...Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part of the respectable gorgios' world, ways or wars...
...British gypsies were more assimilated than most other gypsy stocks. But progress and assimilation might have a stiff tussle with a people which still preserved its folk wisdom in a six-line catechism: Miro dado, soskei shan creminor kaired? (My father, why were worms made?) Miro chabo, that puo-baulor might jib by hailing lende. (My son, that moles might live by eating them.) Miro dado, soskei shan puvo-baulor kaired? (My father, why were moles made?) Miro chabo, that tute ta mande might jib by letting lende. (My son, that you and I might live by catching them.) Miro...
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