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Champit - Mashed. “I’d like my tatties (potatoes) champit please.”

Trimmlin’ Tam - A table jelly. Trimmlin’ means trembling.

Lug - Ear. A luggie is a wooden bowl with handles on the side.

Gallows - An apparatus used to suspend a pot over an open fire.

Hale jing-bang - Everything. “I only wanted to buy some of it but I ended up with the hale jing-bang.”

Spurtle - A short stick for stirring porridge.

Wheech - To move quickly. “I couldnae catch him because he wheeched by me.”

Mismak - To cook food badly.

Nacket - A packed lunch.

Skliff - A segment of an orange.

Blubber-totum - A name for any drink made too thin or weak.

Plout - To immerse in boiling water.

Rab Ha - A voracious eater. Named after the real man, Rab Ha.

Birl - To spin around, whirl. May be used on the dance floor. “Do you fancy a birl aroon’ the floor?”

Adam's wine - Water.

Bothan - An unlicensed drinking house.

Skoosh - Lemonade, or a carbonated drink.

Foosty - Mouldy, mostly used to describe food that has gone off.

Wallies - Dentures. “He’s away to the dentist to pick up his wallies.”

Snagger - To snore harshly.

Chitterin’ - Trembling with cold. “I was chitterin’ outside and had to come back in.”

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