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Search Results for: ahint - 6 Scottish word posts.

Pantomime warning to the innocent Peter about Hook.

Scottish Word: Ahint.

Tags: audience, captain, children, hook, lights, pantomime, pirate, stage, theater

Pantomime warning to the innocent Peter about Hook.

“Ahint ye! Ahint ye!” Translate: ahint, ahent: behind, in or to the rear. “Behind you! Behind you!” Theatre. The Scottish Word: ahint with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in … Continue reading Ahint. →

audience, captain, children, hook, lights, pantomime, pirate, stage, theater
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Three elves above the earth in the stratosphere. One is mounted on a grinning bumblebee, one is on a giant hawk which has bare human legs wearing flip flops. The third is carried by the scruff of his tunic in the blue gloved fist of a small black big eyed owl with long spindly arms who is smoking a very smoky pipe and leaving a trail in the sky.

Scottish Word: Cairry

Tags: cloud, eagle, elves, owl, sandals, smoke, umbrella

Three elves above the earth in the stratosphere. One is mounted on a grinning bumblebee, one is on a giant hawk which has bare human legs wearing flip flops. The third is carried by the scruff of his tunic in the blue gloved fist of a small black big eyed owl with long spindly arms who is smoking a very smoky pipe and leaving a trail in the sky.

He couldni be in better hauns than wee Hoolet Erchie there to be cairried forrit into the New Year. He’s nivir drapped a soul yet twixt one year an the next. Mind his pipe leaves an … Continue reading Cairry →

cloud, eagle, elves, owl, sandals, smoke, umbrella
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Dog in warrior golden regalia with his Royal entourage.

Scottish Word: Whissle.

Tags: crown, priest, raven, robe, staff, sword

Dog in warrior golden regalia with his Royal entourage.

Dinni whissle. He’s left that life o wark n sair trauchle wi the yowes ahint ‘imsell noo. Ahn yer heid’ll be richt aff yer shoulders here n noo wi the Royal Blade if he suspects ye … Continue reading Whissle. →

crown, priest, raven, robe, staff, sword
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Man driving a wee red car trailed by a cast iron boiler and blanketed in soot, smoke and steam.

Scottish Word: Pouer.

Tags: car, driver, fire, goggles, hose, smoke, soot, steam

Man driving a wee red car trailed by a cast iron boiler and blanketed in soot, smoke and steam.

I’d like tae introduce my compact steam pouered car. The doon side is I need tae pou the biler ahint me. Ahm workin oan it. Translate: pouer, pooer: power. I’d like to introduce my compact steam … Continue reading Pouer. →

car, driver, fire, goggles, hose, smoke, soot, steam
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An eeeooooooeeoooooeee in the wilderness unsettles the mountain-top camper.

Scottish Word: Banshee.

Tags: camping, Death, ghost, hiking, hills, mountains, pot, stove, tea, tent, walking

An eeeooooooeeoooooeee in the wilderness unsettles the mountain-top camper.

“Oh Lord please please please dinni let it be a banshee ahm hearin ahint me makin that eldritch din.” Translate: banshee: a wailing female spirit forecasting death or disaster. “Oh Lord please please please do not … Continue reading Banshee. →

camping, Death, ghost, hiking, hills, mountains, pot, stove, tea, tent, walking
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LEAVE DOORS SHUT IF THEY'RE SMOKING OR HOT - OR IN THIS CASE HAVE A RED HOT DOOR HANDLE!

Scottish Word: Adae.

Tags: danger, door, fire, handle, hands

LEAVE DOORS SHUT IF THEY'RE SMOKING OR HOT - OR IN THIS CASE HAVE A RED HOT DOOR HANDLE!

“Ah’ll jist tak a look to see whit’s adae ahint the door.” Translate: adae: going on, what is happening. “I shall just have a quick look behind this door to see what is happening.” The Scottish … Continue reading Adae. →

danger, door, fire, handle, hands
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Girl with a handful of botanical posters of clover, devils bit scabious, and narrow leaved plantain yelling at her brother who is lying in the grass among daisies and buttercups admiring the seed heads of rib-wort plantain (scabiosa lanceolata). All on a sunny day.
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Two women in protective head scarfs and greatcoats with a gas powered heater emitting steam strapped to their backs stroll in front of two brutalist style apartment blocks where a couple with a fire burning in the hallway peer out. Meanwhile ash and dust fall like snow from a blackened sky.
Fliskie.
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A male and female dwarf with red pointy hats, blue aprons and gardening implements are harvesting large red berries from a large leafy fruitful plant that is watching them from eyes in its root below ground. The view below ground shows the large gnarled root clutching the bones of previous burials in amongst the earth and stones.
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