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Search Results for: aroon around - 8 Scottish word posts.

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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Shark like creature in the sea is shouting at a canoeist in a green canoe exiting the rapids of a river accompanied by a dog while a puma and bear look on in amazement from the rocky shore consisting of boulders, sloping gravel, pine trees, and distant mountains in the mist.

Scottish Word: Sterv.

Tags: bear, canoe, fish, lion, mist, rapids, rocks

Shark like creature in the sea is shouting at a canoeist in a green canoe exiting the rapids of a river accompanied by a dog while a puma and bear look on in amazement from the rocky shore consisting of boulders, sloping gravel, pine trees, and distant mountains in the mist.

I’m warnin ye human. My kind are stervin here an if ye go oot to sea ahm gonna huv ye for mha tea. Huv you seen the state o the coastal seafloor aroond here wi the … Continue reading Sterv. →

bear, canoe, fish, lion, mist, rapids, rocks
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Man blowing a deadly snake like a party tooter as observers comment. And the snake does make a toot sound.

Scottish Word: Teet.

Tags: blow, noise, orange, red, snake, tongue

Man blowing a deadly snake like a party tooter as observers comment. And the snake does make a toot sound.

It disni herm the snake but blaws aw its deadly pushion oot. An the teet noise seems tae clear oot aw ither snakes fur auchteen miles aroond. Amazin. Translate: teet: the smallest squeak. It does not … Continue reading Teet. →

blow, noise, orange, red, snake, tongue
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Sculling down a wide wide green tropical misty river on a crocodile, the two monks and samurai are alerted to danger ahead.

Scottish Word: Murther.

Tags: arrows, banner, crocodiles, mist, sign, spear

Sculling down a wide wide green tropical misty river on a crocodile, the two monks and samurai are alerted to danger ahead.

Turn aroond, backie up, thur’r crocodile murtherers aheid! Translate: murther, morthour: murder. Turn around, back up, there are crocodile murderers ahead. mʌrðər The Scottish Word: murther with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with … Continue reading Murther. →

arrows, banner, crocodiles, mist, sign, spear
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Islanders caught on a disappearing tropical island as the sea rises to its highest.

Scottish Word: Soother.

Tags: bottles, dingy, feet, flood, island, phone, sea

Islanders caught on a disappearing tropical island as the sea rises to its highest.

Gi’im peace woman it soothers the loun in this time o trial. It cam in wi the flotsam frae the noo gigantic gyres o aw the junk frae aw the flooded leids aroond the warld. Gaithered … Continue reading Soother. →

bottles, dingy, feet, flood, island, phone, sea
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Wardens from a jail in the desert using a sniffer snake to track down a fugitive.

Scottish Word: Rinagate.

Tags: desert, jail, prison, shotgun, snake, uniform, warden

Wardens from a jail in the desert using a sniffer snake to track down a fugitive.

That’s the benefit o sniffer snakes oer yer bludhoons, ye dinni need tae kert aroond heavy manacles. Ye jist fling the snake at yer miscreant ahn it taigles him up an it diz aw the restraining … Continue reading Rinagate. →

desert, jail, prison, shotgun, snake, uniform, warden
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Santa trialing the new elf drones at the North Pole roof top test delivery environment.

Scottish Word: Graith.

Tags: chimney, presents, reindeer, santa, sledge, snow

Santa trialing the new elf drones at the North Pole roof top test delivery environment.

Tak it frae me Donner, we may be graith the noo but we maunbe douchtless suin eneuch. Jist like whit happened tae aw the elves when he replaced them wi thon flittin clever-deid new fangled whigmaleerie … Continue reading Graith. →

chimney, presents, reindeer, santa, sledge, snow
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Alien in the bath scrubbing his enormous tongue while his wife makes comment.

Scottish Word: Telt.

Tags: bath, bathroom, brush, spray, tiles, tongue

Alien in the bath scrubbing his enormous tongue while his wife makes comment.

Ah’ve telt ye afore ahn I’ll tell ye again ya muckle gamaleerie. Dinni dae yer tongue til yiv completed yir ablutions. Then the watter will be mair fu o bacteria. Scourin the clarty watter oer yer … Continue reading Telt. →

bath, bathroom, brush, spray, tiles, tongue
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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.
A dolphin on the surface of a calm sea and has red a contraption fitted to its back with wires running from a steering wheel to suckers attached to its flippers. Sitting in the open cockpit of the contraption sits a man with goggles and a snorkel listening to a mermaid that only has her head above the translucent waters.
Piece-time.
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.
Vivre.

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