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Gammerstang commented on the word Yule-boys
(pl. noun) - Boys who ramble the country during the Christmas holidays. They are dressed in white, all but one - the "Beelzebub" of the corps. They have a foolish rhyme they repeat and so receive bawbees and pieces two types of coins.
--John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
January 14, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word Yule-boys
(pl. noun) - Boys who ramble the country during the Christmas holidays. They are dressed in white, all but one - the "Beelzebub" of the corps. They have a foolish rhyme they repeat and so receive bawbees and pieces two types of coins.
--John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
January 14, 2018