Scottish Words tagged with: fog - 5 posts.

Girl reads poem on the bus, just written, to boy, her inspiration, in next seat.

Scottish Word: Glisk.

Tags: badge, bag, books, bus, fog, headphones, pen, phone, windows

Yiv glisk’d at that an glisk’d at thon, glisk’d here an glisk’d there. Yiv glisk’d like a stervin loon. Yer fidgin fain tae be at, what, ye dinni ken, but yir at nithin, nithin’s where yer … Continue reading Glisk. →

badge, bag, books, bus, fog, headphones, pen, phone, windows

Three spacemen having fun in a thick layer of fog on a low gravity alien planet.

Scottish Word: Nedder.

Tags: animation, fog, gravity, jets, lightning, sky, spacesuit

Ah dinni ken why the High Heid Yins telt us to stay oot o the fog it’s guid fun tae dangle yer nedder regions oot o sicht. It’s kind o skeerie really dae ye no think? … Continue reading Nedder. →

animation, fog, gravity, jets, lightning, sky, spacesuit

The owl gets the fright of its life and is lucky to only lose a few feathers as the blind mice warned by reverse engineering a gramophone into an early warning listening device lash out with baseball bats.

Scottish Word: Slee.

Tags: blind, fog, gramophone, grass, mice, nursery rhyme, owl, stick, three blind mice, wing

“Aye ye hoolet ye, yer no sae slee as ye think ye are noo that we’ve got oor secret weapon yokit an sicker. Wir warned.” Translate: slee: go or come silently. “Yes you owl you, you … Continue reading Slee. →

blind, fog, gramophone, grass, mice, nursery rhyme, owl, stick, three blind mice, wing

Holmes on the moor in the dark thick mist with Dr Watson, both holding a hand to their ears and holding revolvers - behind them the bloody body of the Baskerville hound lies riddled with lead partially obscured by the banks of mist. The shouts for help are coming from from the villain in the foreground with only his eyes ears and nose visible above the morass who is about to sink out of sight despite a pulling out a few tufts of grass.

Scottish Word: Gullion.

Tags: blood, bog, detective, dog, fog, guns, marsh, mist, moor, night, sherlock, shoot, shooting, smog, watson

“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. →

blood, bog, detective, dog, fog, guns, marsh, mist, moor, night, sherlock, shoot, shooting, smog, watson

Necessary evil in the battlefield as experienced veteran uses dirty tricks to save a hopeless recruit from certain death.

Scottish Word: Foutie.

Tags: armour, battle, battlefield, blood, Death, fog, knife, knives, soldier, sword, swords

“I say – that was a wee bit foutie was it no? – He wuz my loon an I wiz up fur it.” Translate: foutie: mean, despicable, underhand, shabby. “I say – that was a little … Continue reading Foutie. →

armour, battle, battlefield, blood, Death, fog, knife, knives, soldier, sword, swords

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