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Search Results for: radge - 5 Scottish word posts.

Robbed of an heir (to be adopted, possibly eaten) despite a devlishly tight but honest contract.

Scottish Word: Radge.

Tags: computer, contract, gold, laptop, lawyer, mad, straw, tantrum, temper

Robbed of an heir (to be adopted, possibly eaten) despite a devlishly tight but honest contract.

“There’s nae need tae flee intae sic a radge Mr Stiltskin, jist because my client HRH kens yir name.” Translate: radge: mad, furious, violently excited. “There is no need to fly into such an intemperate rage … Continue reading Radge. →

computer, contract, gold, laptop, lawyer, mad, straw, tantrum, temper
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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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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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Man pointing with an arm in a plaster-cast accidentally hits his wife in the nose.

Scottish Word: Stookie.

Tags: compass, flag, gate, hedge, hill, shorts, sign

Man pointing with an arm in a plaster-cast accidentally hits his wife in the nose.

Yiv done it again wi yer stookie! That’s why naebuddy’ll sign it. Yer wife’s gonna be much mair radge than I wiz yon last time. I widni be surprised if she braks yir ither airm when … Continue reading Stookie. →

compass, flag, gate, hedge, hill, shorts, sign
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A card game played at a meters distance from each other about to go very bad.

Scottish Word: Cairts.

Tags: cards, coin, patch, pirates, swords, tables

A card game played at a meters distance from each other about to go very bad.

Crivvens – ah shuid hae kent this hygienic cairt gemme o Guts-Poker-Covid I invented widni go weel fur us whut wi us aw haein oor very own pack o cairts tae deal frae. We’d aw been … Continue reading Cairts. →

cards, coin, patch, pirates, swords, tables
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