Two elderly chaps working on a clockwork girl.
The Scottish Word:

Intimmers.

“I’d leave well enough alone if I was you Erchie. There’s likely tae be hell tae pay for fouterin wi the intimmers.”

Translate:

intimmers: internal structure, the mechanism.

“I’d leave well enough alone if I was you Archibald. There is likely to be big trouble in store for idly meddling with the internal structure.”

[intimmer spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

Illustration Friday. intricate.

The Scottish Word: intimmers 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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