Two women in protective head scarfs and greatcoats with a gas powered heater emitting steam strapped to their backs stroll in front of two brutalist style apartment blocks where a couple with a fire burning in the hallway peer out. Meanwhile ash and dust fall like snow from a blackened sky.
The Scottish Word:

Fliskie.

Aye, it luiks like the wild fires are getting fliskie again goin by the amoont o suit an smut teemin doon.

It’s gey heavy and is coating the groond somethin awfie. Like snaw.

They must be on the move again.

Translate:

fliskie: restless; flighty, skittish.

Well, it looks like the wild fires are getting restless again going by the amount of soot and smut raining down.

It’s rather heavy and is coating the ground something awful. Like snow.

They must be on the move again.

′flɪski
The Scottish Word: fliskie with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

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