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Shelta

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Shel·ta  (shlt)
n.
A secret jargon used by traditionally itinerant people in Great Britain and Ireland, based on systematic inversion or alteration of the initial consonants of Gaelic words. Also called Cant, Gammon.
[From Shelta Sheldr, perhaps alteration of Irish Gaelic béarla, language, English, from Old Irish bélrae, language, from bél, mouth.]
Shelta
Noun
a secret language based on Gaelic, used by some travelling people in Ireland and Britain [origin unknown]

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