Poems Quiz Answers - Scottish Word a week illustrated.

All quizzes.

NEW: Scottish Insults Quiz.
Scottish friends when they meet are more likely to use an insult to greet each other rather than an empty compliment. That's why Scottish insults far outnumber any other Scots word category. They're the true lubrication of friendship. Ya muppet

Word Quiz 01.
Twenty eight Scottish word choices to tax your vocabulary - from heifer to howk through hoochenanny.

Quiz 02 - the Poems Quiz.
Before trying this word quiz read Robbies two poems which contain all the words used in the quiz in context. They are also highlighted in yellow. A complete English translation is provided if you are completely stuck.

Word Quiz 03.
A test of twenty eight choices from forfochten to geggie via oxter to strain your brain.

Teuchter Quiz.
Are you a Tounser? If so, you might do badly in this quiz.

Tounser Quiz.
Likewise if you a Teuchter, you might not be suited to the questions in this quiz.

Whisky Quiz.
How's your knowledge of Whisky and words to do with Whisky making? Test yourself with this one. Some interesting recipes too.

Go Go Quiz.
New modern Scottish words taken from a novel written in Scots about a future wasted Scotland drenched in deadly UV radiation where the entire population live on offshore floating cities anchored 700 metres above a drowned Greenock.

Poems Quiz Answers:

This is what you call a herd of cattle in the North East of Scotland.: kye.
In the North East, to be frozen stiff?: geel't.
To have known someone or something?: kent. (Go to illustration?)
To describe what is being done, as a difficult, tiring and dispiriting job?: trachle. (Go to illustration?)
To fill up and push more in?: stap. (Go to illustration?)
Such; as in such a thing?: sic. (Go to illustration?)
A stone wall without mortar?: dyke. (Go to illustration?)

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