“Aye ye hoolet ye, yer no sae slee as ye think ye are noo that we’ve got oor secret weapon yokit an sicker. Wir warned.”
Translate:
slee: go or come silently.
“Yes you owl you, you are not so silent on the approach as you think you are now that we have got our secret weapon working and stable. We are forewarned”
silent.
If I had a mechanism to award prizes I’d give one to the first person to mention in the comments if they spot which characters from a well known nursery rhyme also feature in the illustration.
The Scottish Word: slee with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
My name is Annemarie Slee, I was born in the Netherlands and moved to Scotland (HOME) one year and a half ago. So fortunate to have found the real land.
Fabulous illustration. The 3BM in their little coats and their pals with the whacking sticks. Brilliant.