Puddock -A frog. May be used to describe someone in an embarrassing situation. "He looked like a right puddock."
Scunner - A boring person, or to bore someone. "She scunnered me something rotten."
Stravaig - To wander about the countryside idly looking for mischief.
Flech - To scratch, often vigorously. Flech also means to feather an arrow. It is the derivative of the word fletcher, an arrow-maker.
Nicky-tams - String tied around the leg below the knee to keep trouser leg bottoms out of the mud.
Spiug - A sparrow . A small seed-eating bird.
Chiel - A young man
Coo - A cow. "The farmer’s taking the coos for milking.” Scottish coos are most usually thought of as Highland cows.
Tattie-bogle - A scarecrow used to keep crows and other birds away from field crops.
Puggled - Tired or exhausted. “I felt fair puggled after I ran the marathon.”
Fouter - To dither around. Spoken as footer.
Cuddy - A horse.
Cuddy-punt - A cuddy-punt is a piggy-back.
Piece - A sandwich. “I want a piece in jeely.” Jeely is jam or jelly.
Palin stab - Fence post. “He slipped and dunted his neb on the palin stab.” ”He slipped and hit his nose on the fence post.”
Deef - Deaf
Neb - Nose.
Ploo - A plough.
Bool-backed - Round-shouldered. Most likely originated from the game of lawn bowls. A bool is the small, round ball used in lawn bowls, a common game in Scotland. “They’ve gone to play some bools.”
Scotland Places To Visit - Traditional Scottish Words
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