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The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) tell us that broukit means “soiled with soot or streaked with dirt”. Nineteenth-century examples show that the term was often used to describe children.

The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) cover the many senses associated with this term since the fifteenth century. The most familiar ...

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