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Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language by George Henry Borrow
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Bark, s. Breast, woman's breast.

Bas / Base, s. Pound sterling. Wal. Pes (a weight, burden).

Bas-engro, s. A shepherd. Run. Bacso.

Bashadi, s. A fiddle.

Bata, s. A bee. Sans. Pata.

Bau, s. Fellow, comrade. See Baw.

Baul, s. Snail. See Bowle.

Baulo, s. Pig, swine. The proper meaning of this word is anything
swollen, anything big or bulky. It is connected with the English
bowle or bole, the trunk of a tree; also with bowl, boll, and belly;
also with whale, the largest of fish, and wale, a tumour; also with
the Welsh bol, a belly, and bala, a place of springs and eruptions.
It is worthy of remark that the English word pig, besides denoting
the same animal as baulo, is of the same original import, being
clearly derived from the same root as big, that which is bulky, and
the Turkish buyuk, great, huge, vast.

Baulie-mas, s. Pork, swine's flesh.

Bavano. Windy, broken-winded.

Bavol, s. Wind, air. Sans. Pavana. See Beval.
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