“Help ma boab! Ma thummarts awa, it’s no in any o ma pooches whar it aucht tae be.”
Translate:
thummart: ferret.
“My goodness (help my Bob)! My ferret has got away, it is not in any of my pockets where it ought to be.”
![[thummart spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/thummartph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: thummart with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
We called ferrets “Stoats” in Ayrshire and “stoating” also meant to “hit really hard” as in “stoat the ba”.