Alice, Mad Hatter, Mad Hare, Dormouse and a table of Scottish bakery goods.

Scottish Word: Deleerit.

Tags: baking, biscuits, bun, butter, chairs, goggles, hat, jam, monacle, mouse, pyjamas, roses, scones, shortbread, sugar, teacup, treacle

Nae the full shilling, awa in the heid, affen the knot, gytit, no wice, a nine bob note, dementit, deleerit? No a bit o it lassie. Translation: deleerit: delirious, insane, mad. In an incomplete state of … Continue reading Deleerit. →

baking, biscuits, bun, butter, chairs, goggles, hat, jam, monacle, mouse, pyjamas, roses, scones, shortbread, sugar, teacup, treacle

Servant checks his ladies rose bush wig for vermin and informs his master and his employer.

Scottish Word: Bawbee.

Tags: beautiful, boxes, coin, fly, green, money, pose, roses, servant, watch

“It’s aye the same every year Master Poons. There’s no a green flee tae be foond even fur 3 bawbee a wing.” Translated: bawbee, balbie: one time Scottish copper coin, worth equivalent to a half penny … Continue reading Bawbee. →