Girl with long blond hair reclines on a settee with many cushions arm dangling over the back while the other hangs down close to her glass of red wine on the floor. An herbal cigarette in her mouth glows and smoke rises into the night. At her feet a cat sits on the arm of the settee beside the head of a big dog resting its chin, behind them is a goldfish bowl where a nonplussed goldfish stares up at a gesticulating white Cockatoo waving its wing at the girl and haranguing the crew from its perch that dangles from the ceiling.
The Scottish Word:

Dover.

See! She’s a daidlin drochlin mawtent!

Which wan o youz is gonna roose her oot o her mense-deleerin dover tae haun oot scran.

I want fed!

Translate:

Dover: to doze, to fall into a light sleep.

See! She’s a time wasting dawdling inactive person!

Which one of you lot is going to rouse her out of her dreamy doze to hand out food.

I want fed!

′do:vər
The Scottish Word: dover with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

Inktober #20 lounge.

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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