Afternoon tea with sticky buns and a dog and man looking on.
The Scottish Word:

Yivvery.

“You two can sod off and stap yivverin efter my cake. Yiv had yours.”

Translate:

yivvery:desirous, anxious – to do with hunger.

“You two can sod off and stop lusting after my cake. You have had yours.”

[yivverin spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

The Scottish Word: yivvery 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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