Father and son cat burglar team picking a lock.
The Scottish Word:

Knackie.

“Aye yer a knackie lad son, ye’ll gang far.”

Translate:

knackie: adriot, deft, skilful, ingenious.

“Yes indeed you are a skilful lad son, you’ll go far.”

[knackie spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

The Scottish Word: knackie 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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