Maternity and the male to female attendance in birds much as in the human.
The Scottish Word:

Shak.

“Gie yirsel a shak! Ah feel an egg comin on.”

Translate:

shak: shake.

“Rouse yourself and get sensible! I am feeling an egg coming on.”

[shak spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

The Scottish Word: shak 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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