“Yer all a bunch o clypes!”
Translate:
clype: tell tale, informer.
“You are all a gang of tell tales!”
![[clype spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/clypeph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: clype with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
When I was a bairn it was usually Now you dinnae clype tae yer mither Probably because your mother A would act on it or B She was the one who organised the household and looked after the children’s daily routines