Scottish Words tagged with: blood - 20 posts.

Red nose day cat and dog humanely dipping in red dye for charity.

Scottish Word: Baudrons.

Red nose day cat and dog humanely dipping in red dye for charity.

“Sorry we’re no dookin cats nae mair, no even wee baudrons’ – Dave over there’s no in fancy dress – it’s first aid.” Translate: baudrons: affectionate name for a cat, happy cat (re: mimic of the … Continue reading Baudrons.

Joseph Lister at one of his earliest operations using anti bacterial methods while his colleague waits in a blood and meat splattered frock coat, cuffs and even hands.

Scottish Word: Scutter.

Joseph Lister at one of his earliest operations using anti bacterial methods while his colleague waits in a blood and meat splattered frock coat, cuffs and even hands.

“Get a move on Lister, this scuttering aboot swoppin aprons, washing, scrubbing an pentin between operations is going tae mak me late for ma supper.” Translate: scutter: hinder with something unimportant, delay detain through some needless … Continue reading Scutter.

Holmes on the moor in thick mist with the Baskerville hound riddled with lead and feeble cries from the quicksand.

Scottish Word: Gullion.

Holmes on the moor in thick mist with the Baskerville hound riddled with lead and feeble cries from the quicksand.

“I’m a bit deaved wi all the gunplay Watson. Can you hear onythin? Along the lines o ‘…sinking in a bottomless gullion…’, ‘help help’ an sic like?” Translate: gullion: deep pool of mud, a quagmire, marsh. … Continue reading Gullion.

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