Girl in a hazmat suit and breather mask kneels on the ground and picks a strangely coloured mushroom while her colleague in the background holds up his hand to stop anyone else coming close. Green emmisions from the fungi still in the ground stun a bird causing it to fall out of the sky.
The Scottish Word:

Mingin.

Hud back! She’s done it.

She’s fund the fash wi me an I’ll ming ye mingin shrooms. An antrin thing.

Onie close an we’ll nivir get the funk oot o oor claes even efter five washes.

Translate:

Mingin: stinky.

Stay back! She’s done it.

She’s found the bother me and I’ll stink you stinky mushrooms. A rare thing.

Any closer and we’ll never get the stench out of our clothes even after five washes.

ˈmɪŋən
The Scottish Word: mingin with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

Inktober #8 Stinky.

The Inktober 2026 Prompt List: 1 Apple 2 Relic 3 Miniature 4 Cactus 5 Smack 6 Ogre 7 Panic 8 Stinky 9 Ram 10 Mystical 11 Rescue 12 Toss 13 Flimsy 14 Lady 15 Hooray 16 Gangly 17 Contraption 18 Flightless 19 Confused 20 Lounge 21 Hero 22 Beacon 23 Dapper 24 Bake 25 Fracture 26 Zip 27 Dumb 28 Trophy 29 Tusk 30 Cookie 31 Flex
Inktober 2026 prompt list used to backdate words not done since summer 2025.

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