Scots Word of the Week: Sweirt
According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, if one is sweirt to do something one is “lazy, sluggish, loath, reluctant”.
According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, if one is sweirt to do something one is “lazy, sluggish, loath, reluctant”.
Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines begowk as meaning “to befool; to jilt in courtship; to slight a woman”.
Scots has quite a few words for things that are “troublesome, annoying, irksome; of a task, tricky, ticklish” or, as further defined in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, “Fractious, peevish, fretty, especially of children; fussy, fastidious”.
Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines one usage of stave as: “To sprain, bruise or contuse a joint of the body”. And in his 1825 Etymological Dictionary of the Scots Language, Jamieson gave this example: “to staive the thoum”; further defining it as to “fa into staves, to smash, to fall into pieces”.
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language gives a range of meanings for chookie. Today we are focusing on chicken or bird.
Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines this as “to walk slowly and painfully or with a limp, to hobble; to move unevenly, as a hare”.
Defined by the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) as “the buttocks, the hips, haunches, of human beings and animals”, this word has a long pedigree.
Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines bumbaze simply: “to perplex, bewilder, stupefy”.
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) gives a selection of definitions for plank. The one we’re focusing on here is: “to put in a secret place. Hide, secrete, stow away for later use.”
Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) defines puggie as: “The hole in a game of marbles into which the marbles are rolled; the bank, kitty, jackpot or pool in a game of cards or the like” and gives the related senses of a one-armed bandit or fruit machine and a cash-dispenser.
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