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Thread #154143 Message #3614431
Posted By: Bob Bolton
02-Apr-14 - 12:39 AM
Thread Name: The Foggy Dew [O'Neil]
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew [O'Neil]
G'day Mr Happy,
By my Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary:
"... probably of dialect origin: cf. Welsh bucibo 'the Devil': from bwci 'hobgpblin'."
REgards,
Bob