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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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YANTER, n. A local name given to a person living in Nether Buckie, on the west side of the Buckie Burn in Banffshire (Bnff. 1926). [′jɑntər]Bnff. 1887 G. Hutcheson Days of Yore 31:
There were stone fights, when the “Cully” (Easter Buckie) fisher boys battled against the “Yanter” (Nether Buckie) boys.