Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BEENGIE, n. In phr. “beengie o' a fire,” meaning a heaped-up fire. [′biŋi]Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin (1868) xxix.:
For I had a guid beengie o' a fire on.
