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FLATTIE, n. A person who is not a traveller.Abd. 1990 Stanley Robertson Fish-Hooses (1992) 99:
He was a rather grippy kind of chiel and very much intae the wyes of the scaldie folk. He worked at a factory in Aiberdeen and he liked fit-ba and times he would mate aboot with the flatties and sometimes spake like them.
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