Scottish Word: Gloaming
Jings! Yoor a gloamin gairdner too! I gairden in the gloaming aw the time, but I nivir kent you did. I dae it so the daylicht disni stimulate the exposed weed seeds intae sprootin during grund … Continue reading Gloaming
Scottish Words tagged with: hole - 5 posts.
Scottish Word: Funk
“Ahm in a funk noo. Yir aw deid!” Translated: funk: a foul temper. “I am in a foul temper now. You are all going to die!”
Scottish Word: Stobs
“Whaur’s the stobs?” Translated: stob: fence post. “What is holding up the delivery of the fence posts?”
Scottish Word: Sneddin, sneddins
“Watch yirsel on thon pile o sneddins there’s a muckle hole unnerit.” Translated: sneddins: collection of cut off branches. sned: to trim off side branches of a felled tree. snedded: that which has been pruned. “Watch … Continue reading Sneddin, sneddins
Scottish Word: Blooter
“Blooter the baw like that again an’ you’re no playin!” Translated: Blooter: “If you kick the ball as hard and carelessly as that again you are not getting to play football with us.”