“That’s a fair chiel yiv got thur Erchie, are ye pittin ‘im in to the Games?”
Translate:
chiel: young man.
“That’s a fine strong young lad you have there Archibald. Are you going to get him to enter the Highland Show competitions?”
![[chiel spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/chielph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: chiel with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
Our school newspaper was called “The Chaffee Chiel” We were told “chiel” was Scots for reporter, but I can’t find that. Is it so?
Sorry I’ve not heard of that. I looked on the Scottish dictionary site in case there were obscure meanings which they often mention. https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/chield but no.
It reads to me as the chattering/sweet youth/child. Chavie cheil. Nowadays morphed into chavs alas.