Two men with a trolley holding a giant tube of toothpaste on top of a huge wall are cleaning the teeth of an ape the size of King Kong. While below another manicures its nails.
The Scottish Word:

Gam.

Cleanin the gams o Kong’s Bairns aw day every day.

Is this really the best job on this island you could’ve got us?

An what happened tae the previous folk on the job?

Translate:

gam: a large uneven tooth.

Cleaning the ungainly teeth of Kong’s offspring all day every day.

Is this really the best job on the island you could have got us?

And what happened to the previous people on this job?

gam
The Scottish Word: gam 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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