Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1957
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TREBBLER, n. Variant of traveller. See quot. and Travel, v., 4.em.Sc. 1957 D. Daiches Two Worlds 117:
In the 1920's, the favourite mode of transport of those Edinburgh Jews who made a precarious living as itinerant salesmen, peddling anything from sewing needles to ready-made dresses among the good housewives and fisherfolk of Fife. They were the 'trebblers', in their own Scots-Yiddish idiom.
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