sawney
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Is sawney a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A fool, an idiot.countable
2. (UK, thieves' cant, obsolete, uncountable) Bacon.Examples: "Tyrrell, another boy, confirmed their testimony, and said, on one occasion, when they had stolen a heart, liver, and lights, the prisoner said, "go out, one or two of you, and see if you can get a bit of sawney!" (meaning a bit of bacon)."; "If a boy comes to the house on a night without money or sawney, or something to sell to the lodgers, a handkerchief or something of that kind, he is not admitted, but told very plainly, ‘Go thieve it, then.’"; "A man came in as she spoke, and drawing a large piece of bacon from his pocket, flung it down upon the counter. 'How much d'ye want for it?' said the lodging-house keeper, weighing it with his eyes. 'Sixpence.' 'Sixpence for a bit of sawney! (thieved bacon). We can't give more than fourpence in this shop, my buffer.'"UKobsoleteuncountable
noun (English)
1. (archaic, derogatory) A Scotsman.Examples: "“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another."; "He took the gibe and scowled at me--he spoke always like a Sawney, and could never pass for English; but in his pleasure at the discovery he had made he let the word pass."archaicderogatory
Definition source: Wiktionary