Mouse on the mouse trap is narrowly missed by the spiked hammer swinging overhead resulting in skinned knuckles, toes and ears cropped short plus the cheese bait in its hands got chopped in two.
The Scottish Word:

Gowster.

Oooyah! Ah thocht ye were a gowster for certie there Widdles.

That wiz a close squeek, yir cheese is in twa.

Translate:

gowster: goner, turned into a ghost.

Oh my gosh! I thought you were a goner for certain there Widdles.

That was a close squeak, your cheese is in two.

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

(This is a Scotstober 2024 Word.)

All of the Scotstober words illustrated for week two are available to scroll through on a single page here.

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