Variant spelling of camsteary; crooked, unruly, or difficult in behavior or appearance; dialectal British term.
Scottish/Northern English variant of 'camsteary', with '-ery' variant ending, used interchangeably in regional dialects.
Regional spelling variations like this show how dialect survives—people in one area wrote and pronounced things slightly differently, and both versions stuck around in their communities.
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