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Search Results for: awready - 5 Scottish word posts.

Bear with a fragile bone china cup at a wee picnic table laden with honey, a pot of tea and a plate with a honey sandwich as a bad storm approaches out of a blue sky.

Scottish Word: Hinnie.

Tags: bears, cave, cloud, honey, round table, sandwich, storm, teacup

Bear with a fragile bone china cup at a wee picnic table laden with honey, a pot of tea and a plate with a honey sandwich as a bad storm approaches out of a blue sky.

She’s gonna be in a richt radge at her hinnie piece gettin weet and her tea bein diluted in the coming rain. She’s awready got the sair heid an wi that storm breeshlin in awfi fast … Continue reading Hinnie. →

bears, cave, cloud, honey, round table, sandwich, storm, teacup
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Two police in a hot dry desert environment puzzled by alien floating above the sand in an inflatable raft.

Scottish Word: Thrawart.

Tags: blue, cactus, police, raft, sand, sun, waders

Two police in a hot dry desert environment puzzled by alien floating above the sand in an inflatable raft.

He’s queeryin, whilst takin parteecular note o us wearin waders, if we’re bein willfully thrawart in no seein the watter. He’ll gie us that it’s crystal clear but denying watter’s there ataw he taks as bein … Continue reading Thrawart. →

blue, cactus, police, raft, sand, sun, waders
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Turnip people investigating a suspicious death.

Scottish Word: Trow.

Tags: bucket, cobweb, gloves, keyboard, newspaper, policeman, queen, toadstool, turnip

Turnip people investigating a suspicious death.

The chiel’s a tumshieheid gomach monoglot o a trow o the warst kind. Burst his pan tap ahn skooshed a biled bilein o rotten neep oer the ceilin. Frae lookin at his browsin history and choice … Continue reading Trow. →

bucket, cobweb, gloves, keyboard, newspaper, policeman, queen, toadstool, turnip
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Viking immigrant saves doctor's life with the Heimlich maneuver causing red faces all round. And the dog catches the bun while the guy in the wheelchair wonders why his psychic mate never warned him the time he fell from his ladder.

Scottish Word: Baxter.

Tags: beard, cakes, doctor, dog, first aid, red, wheelchair

Viking immigrant saves doctor's life with the Heimlich maneuver causing red faces all round. And the dog catches the bun while the guy in the wheelchair wonders why his psychic mate never warned him the time he fell from his ladder.

Ah foresaw an awready kent aw this whut cam tae pass. The doctor there’ wha nearly chokit oan a stott o cake. The life savin’ Heimlich viking beardy loun, the reid pussed baxter o indegestible buns. … Continue reading Baxter. →

beard, cakes, doctor, dog, first aid, red, wheelchair
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Slave berates its Vampire master who is in deep reflection about itself, not the dead victim at its feet.

Scottish Word: Loom o morn.

Tags: bosom, coffin, feet, hands, horse, ladder, lamp, toorie, vampire, wheel

Slave berates its Vampire master who is in deep reflection about itself, not the dead victim at its feet.

Look, it’s the loom o morn awready ya evil basket. You’ve nae time tae squat there moodily indulging in existential angst o’er deith, entropy and the ennuii o immortality all o-er the heid o yer morning … Continue reading Loom o morn. →

bosom, coffin, feet, hands, horse, ladder, lamp, toorie, vampire, wheel
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A witch in the foreground of a fiery exploding open prison who is casting human bones to the ground for divination purposes.
Neibour.
A live dog in a small coffin being stroked by an old woman as the grave digger looks on next to a small open grave.
Whuffle.
A man in a world war two RAF flying jacket painted in stripes and glued on cardboard wings who is about to leap off a cliff. Meanwhile a matronly woman runs up the hill shouting; 'STOP! darling, you're not a foggie bummer.'
Foggie bummer.
Apprentice print-maker is carefully cutting intricate patterns into the lino on a bench while the assessor hovers behind with his checklist and a loaded pistol.
Fricht.

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