Word: maister
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murray's "cutpurses, burglars, father-beaters" become, in Young's thistly translation, "houssbrakars, sporranslitters, daddie-dadders." Young is not above throwing foreign phrases into his Lallans: "He's a richt pukka sahib, your maister...