Old ladies with too much protective clothing for summer in the Highlands.
The Scottish Word:

Smirr.

“Ach it’s jist a smirr o rain Senga. Ah dinni think we’ll bother uppin the brollies.”

Translate:

smirr: soft rain, a misting of rain.

“My, it’s just a very light soft shower of rain Senga. I don’t think we will bother to deploy the umbrellas.”

[smirr spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]
The Scottish Word: smirr 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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