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Thread #151783   Message #3549769
Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
16-Aug-13 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: Singing in Different Accents/Dialects
Subject: RE: Singing in Different Accents/Dialects
"Is 'Tattie Bogle' a Norfolk expression"

It is an old Scots term for a scarecrow. Literal translation being "potato ghost". Can also be a mildly derogatory name for a trampish unkempt person and also for a turnip lantern at Halloween.

Saying that when I was a kid my mother always used to call the wax in the kid's ears tattie bogles :-)