tinkie
n.— «As I understand it, and I can’t claim fully to understand, they spend the Scottish winter in Australia touring their relatives in a camper van and building themselves a sort of ecological dream house near Perth in the west, and the Scottish summer they spend in Britain with another camper van touring the relatives here. In Australia they call themselves “Trailer Trash” and in Scotland they are “The Tinkies.”» —“A clot, with neither cotton wool nor common sense” by Charlie Allan The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) Mar. 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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