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Search Results for: jail - 5 Scottish word posts.

Man in kilt waiting holding a poop bag as his dog on a lead strains to do its business. He is shouting at his daughter who looks grim and is sullenly holding a loudhailer and a placard saying there is no planet B.

Scottish Word: Threap.

Tags: dog, kilts, loudspeaker, planet, shoe, signs

Man in kilt waiting holding a poop bag as his dog on a lead strains to do its business. He is shouting at his daughter who looks grim and is sullenly holding a loudhailer and a placard saying there is no planet B.

Stop threapin at me aw the time, there’s only so much ah can dae for the planet aw at once. So no anither teet frae ye til I’m done or yer no comin on oor dog … Continue reading Threap. →

dog, kilts, loudspeaker, planet, shoe, signs
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Two men wearing prison boiler suits hide in a dark room. One speaks while the other peeks through a brick sized hole in the wall that provides the only illumination. Meanwhile unnoticed a green fierce troll's torso is rising out of an opening trapdoor in the floor.

Scottish Word: Pit.

Tags: brick, dark, feet, trapdoor, wall

Two men wearing prison boiler suits hide in a dark room. One speaks while the other peeks through a brick sized hole in the wall that provides the only illumination. Meanwhile unnoticed a green fierce troll's torso is rising out of an opening trapdoor in the floor.

Pit the brick back – if you can keek oot the Ogre can keek in. We dinni want him tae ken we’ve got a hidie-hole in his castle ahn him wi no kennin o a wey … Continue reading Pit. →

brick, dark, feet, trapdoor, wall
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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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Prisoners don't know they are in giant thumb operated portable juicers on a gigantic supermarket shelf - but they will if they can manage to read the instructions on the outside.

Scottish Word: Mak oot.

Tags: boxes, mirror, prisoner, spring, straw

Prisoners don't know they are in giant thumb operated portable juicers on a gigantic supermarket shelf - but they will if they can manage to read the instructions on the outside.

“Can ye mak oot what the scrievins oan the wa’ o the giant’s jile sez wi yer wee mirror yet?” Translate: mak oot: decipher, make out, comprehend. “Can you make out what the writings on the … Continue reading Mak oot. →

boxes, mirror, prisoner, spring, straw
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American sergeant pulls on rubber gloves.

Scottish Word: Graip.

Tags: gaol, gaoler, glove, gloves, jail, jailer, prison, prisoner, soldier, uniform

American sergeant pulls on rubber gloves.

“Welcome – this is yir jile and I’m yer jiler for the-day – noo get ben the hoose and assume the position for tae be graiped.” Translate: graip: search with the hands, probe, examine. “Welcome – … Continue reading Graip. →

gaol, gaoler, glove, gloves, jail, jailer, prison, prisoner, soldier, uniform
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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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