Boy sullenly parking himself by the supermarket trollies.
The Scottish Word:

Girnie.

“Ignore the wee girnie – he’s been telt he’s getting no more sweeties boucht till he finishes his Christmas ones.”

Translate:

girnie: peevish, ill-tempered, complaining.

“Ignore the small grumpy person. He has been told that he is not getting any sweets bought for him until he has finished all the sweets he got for Christmas.”

[girnie spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

The Scottish Word: girnie 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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