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Davy

I'll take my davy of it. I'll take my “affidavit” it is true.

Davy

(Snuffy). David Wilson. (See Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, chap. iii. and note.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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