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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1835, 1931
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BLUTER, n. Cf. Bluiter, v.1, (3).
1. A bubble.Sc. 1835 J. Mayne Maggy MacLane in Songs of Scot. (1871) 462:
The haggis was bockin' oot bluters o' bree-fat, An' hotch'd to the piper its lane.
2. Used derisively.Dmb. 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle xv.:
It's like a deshed museum! They'll have a crowd round that bluter of a window [a shop-window] o' theirs.
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