Granny wrapped up warm with two grandchildren in T shirts on a boat on a boating pond in summer as the mist moves across the park, with a warden in the background shouting 'come in number 9 - oops - sorry, do you need any help number 6?'.
The Scottish Word:

Haar.

Richt bairns, tak yer granny ashore tae a toasty tea room

There’s a sair haar movin in oer the water ahn it’s like tae jeel me tae mha banes.

Gleg like noo.

Translate:

haar: A cold mist or fog, gen. used on the east coast for a sea-mist.

Righto children, take your granny ashore to a cosy tea room.

There’s a cold hard easterly mist moving in over the water and it’ll likely freeze me to my bones.

Quick now.

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The Scottish Word: haar 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 one are available to scroll through on a single page here.

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