Scottish Words tagged with: instrument - 3 posts.

Seashore scene, seen from the edge of the dunes looking out to sea where a wizard, with a huge ear trumpet to his ear, lies prone alongside a colleague taking notes amongst the dune grasses. The trumpet is pointed at a witch on a broomstick talking to a crescent moon, with a face, just above the horizon.

Scottish Word: Carline.

Tags: crabs, dunes, instrument, moon, sea, witch, writing

Thon carlin winni care that it’s jist yer auld hearing aid. If we’re caught she’ll go jist as hard on us for usin that as she would if we’d used devilisch speirin whigmaleeries. Anyway I think … Continue reading Carline. →

crabs, dunes, instrument, moon, sea, witch, writing

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.

Tags: blood, doctor, instrument, qualifications, sand, scalpel, soap, surgeon, surgery, wash

“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. →

blood, doctor, instrument, qualifications, sand, scalpel, soap, surgeon, surgery, wash

Scottish Word: Proadge.

Tags: camping, instrument, love, sleeping, stick, tent

“If you proadge at me again – yer gettin a lampin.” Translate: proadge: make poking or prodding movements with a long instrument. “If you prod with that long instrument at me again you are getting a … Continue reading Proadge. →

camping, instrument, love, sleeping, stick, tent