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First published 2005 (SND, online supplement).
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BERTIE AULD, adj. [Bertie Auld was a player with Celtic Football Club in the 1950s and 60s.] Rhyming slang for cauld.Gsw. 1991:
..On coming out of a football match on a winter's day a man near him remarked, 'My it's fair Burlington the day.' 'Burlington?' my friend enquired. 'Aye, Burlington Bertie. Bertie Auld, [then manager of Partick Thistle], cauld.'Edb. 1994 Irvine Welsh Acid House 212:
Fuckin Bertie Auld, the PATH said, as we staggered into the boozer, shaking and tramping the snow from our coats and boots.Sc. 2003 www.catharton.net/cgi-local/authors Apr :
"its awfie bertie missus macdonald"... as in bertie auld = cauld (bertie auld was former hibs manager) Sc. 2005 www.firstfoot.com/php/glossary :
bertie-auld rhyming slang for cold/cauld