This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3dB.2ACI/6011.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you!! I had been told that by my grandmother--- who, by the way, was half English, half Scottish. Neither she nor my dad had been able to explain the term, so I appreciate it!