Shop keeper in a white coat about to dish up some sweets from giant jars full of them into a small paper bag.
The Scottish Word:

Poke.

“Right son, hoo many grannie-sookers di ye want in yir poke?”

Translate:

poke: bag.

“All right young man, how many pan-drops (sweets grannies love to suck) do you want in your bag?”

The Scottish Word: poke 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 four are available to scroll through on a single page here.

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