aboot-gaain
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Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]aboot + gaain; Calque of Old Norse umganga (“to go round”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aboot-gaain
- (Northern Isles) going about, whirling, veering, wandering
References
[edit]- “aboot-gaain, ppl. adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.