Ex service amputee personnel playing aggressive football (soccer) on stilts.

Scottish Word: Tackety Bits.

Tags: ball, boots, football, goal, goalkeeper, mountains, nails, shoes, sky, soccer, soldier, sport

“Yer teeterin like a sissy – the secret’s muckle sturdy tackety bits what gie ye stability. No these wee licht baffies ye’ve on” Translate: tackety bits, ~buits, ~butts, ~butes: hobnailed boots. “You are teetering like a … Continue reading Tackety Bits. →

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Some young boys have paused their game of fitba. There is a hole in the goal net and the ball is in the far distance. One boy, with a face like thunder, is being scolded by another for kicking the ball too hard.

Scottish Word: Blooter.

Tags: children, football, game, goal, goals, hole, kids

“Blooter the baw like that again an’ you’re no playin!” Translate: Blooter: “If you kick the ball as hard and carelessly as that again you are not getting to play football with us.” The Scottish Word: … Continue reading Blooter. →

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