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Murray | Lyr Req: Road to the Isles (parody) (24) | RE: Road to the Isles | 09 Apr 98 |
A tattie is a potato, and a bogle is a scary thing, so a tattie-bogle is a scarecrow., set up to keep birds away from the potato field. It doesn't actually smell, I suppose, but you're not looking for logic in this piece, are you? I expect it's really used as a good ethnic word, that's all. |