"Sawney" meaning in English

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          "text": "Sawney Bean"
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          "ref": "1812, John Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards, page 185:",
          "text": "But Sawney grew weary, and fain would be civil, / Being auld, and unfeary, and fail'd of his strength",
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        "A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, of Scots origin."
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          "word": "Sawny"
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  "word": "Sawney"
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      "form": "Sawneys",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:",
          "text": "“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.",
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          "ref": "1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XIV, in Shrewsbury:",
          "text": "He took the gibe and scowled at me--he spoke always like a Sawney, and could never pass for English; but in his pleasure at the discovery he had made he let the word pass.",
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        "A Scotsman."
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        "(archaic, derogatory) A Scotsman."
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  "word": "Sawney"
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          "text": "Sawney Bean"
        },
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        },
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