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boskin
 n.— «Born in the Carmarthenshire village of Bancyfelin, he spoke only Welsh when the family moved to Carmarthen in 1947, where the monoglot English speakers of the town referred disparagingly to country dwellers as “boskins”—a slang relic of a medieval word meaning people of the woods.» —“One boskin finds a way with words” by Steve Dube icWales Feb. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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