[Ads-l] Things That Go Bump in the Night

[Mark Mandel]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 11:58 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *...*
> However, the Dictionary of the Scots Language has no entry for "ghoulie" or
> "long/lang -leggity," and no exx. of "ghaistie" till 1979 !
>

Need it? I suspect that that "-ie" suffix is productive.

MAM

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