A person being ill while leaning on a dyke while a toad relishes its breakfast of a greasy slug at the base of the wall.

Scottish Word: Puddock.

Tags: dyke, eat, eating, sick, slug, stone, stones, toad

‘The diet of a puddock wid gar ye boke.’ Translate: puddock: frog Rana or (in this illustration) toad Bufo vulgaris. ‘The diet of a toad is enough to make one vomit.’ The Scottish Word: puddock with … Continue reading Puddock. →

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Man at last refusing one more pot of noodles with piles and piles of his recent empties stacked in the background.

Scottish Word: Scunnered.

Tags: competition, eat, eating, fat, full, sick

“That’s it, he’s noodled oot – completely scunnered hissel.” Translate: scunnered: to be sick of; to have had enough of; to go completely off something, gluttonised. “He’s capitulated on the noodles – made himself rather heartily … Continue reading Scunnered. →

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