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Borrow meant it to stand for "word - master, philologist," but -- _nomen omen_ -- already in Grellmann (1787) _latcho lavengro_ stood for "a liar."
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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Thus we have sapengro, lavengro, and sherengro, head man.
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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