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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶BRUCHACK, n. A cot, a small mean dwelling-house, a croft house or hut. [′brʌxɑk]Mry. 1865 J. Horne Poems 135:
Her turf-built bruchacks, great an' sma', They've heaped upo' their middens.
[Dim. form ad. Gael. brugh, a house, fort, souterrain (from Broch, n.1), and phs. a mistake for Gael. bruchlag, a hovel, of the same orig.]
