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Friday, June 22, 2012

Scots dialect....

I pulled a dish towel out of the drawer this morning, and it was the one my dear Peggy sent. It has "a unique range of quid Scots words." (It says that on the towel!) I don't know what "quid Scots words" means, either. Anyway, here's the list, per the towel:
braw (br-aaw) adj. = fine, pleasant esp. weather  
mauchit (maw-kit) adj. = dirty, filthy, stinky, muddy ("Lookit the colour o' ye, ya mauchit wee to'rag")
glaikit (glai-kit) adj. = stupid, silly
dreich (dre-ech) adj. = drab, dreary  
besom (biz-um) n. = female upstart
crabbit (cra-bit) adj. = ill-tempered, grumpy  
laldie (lall-dy) n. = a thrashing, a sound beating  
canny (can-y) adj. = cautious, hesitant, frugal  
scunner (scun-ner) v. = to feel aversion; n. = strong dislike; n. = nuisance.
fankle (fan-kle) n. an entanglement ("Dinnae get yersel' in a fankle")

more to come.....

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