“C’mon faither, this’ll gie us a rare fleg!”
Translate:
fleg: fright.
“Come let’s go father, this walk will surely give us a really good fright.”
The Scottish Word: fleg with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
“I got a pure fleg”……”I got a big fright”
I used the expression Fleg until further education drove this legitimate old Scots word out of my vocabulary. I had visions of myself as an educated fellow who would never use this type of language and I tried always to speak the Queen’s English. It wasn’t until I completed my degree course that I began to question what I had learned about language and decided to do more research into my native tongue and realised how much I had lost