A World War One officer class attempt at empathy.
The Scottish Word:

Snell.

“Ah tak it it’s a gey snell wind oot there corporal?”

Translate:

snell: sharp, bitter, biting, severe.

“Am I correct in assuming it is a rather sharp bitter wind out there corporal?”

The Scottish Word: snell 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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