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Romany, language of the Roma, or from Shelta, a secret language of Welsh and Irish Travellers. These languages have roots with the Hindi word loke, a man. Lexicographer Eric Partridge conjectured the word loke was the original but an unspecified word "too low for mention" was the cause of a b- added in slang. The Oxford English Dictionary

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