“Whit fizzes in the mooth disni aye fill the wame.” Translate: wame: belly. “What fizzes in the mouth doesn’t always fill the belly.” The Scottish Word: wame with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned … Continue reading Wame.
The clachan yill had made me canty, I was na fou, but just had plenty: I stacher’d whyles, but yet took tent ay To free the ditches; An’ hillocks, stanes, an’ bushes, kend ay Frae ghaists … Continue reading Fou.
Haggert in hauf. Yin the kyte n shanks leckin blude, yin the pow n shouders seemin wice. Whit pairt airtens t’ither n tae whaur? Whit pairt mishanters n whit clecks thouchts? Twa th’gither yet alane, mirkit, … Continue reading Hagger.