What is a geggie?
/ (ˈɡɛɡɪ) / noun. a Scottish, esp Glaswegian, slang word for the mouth.
What does Bourach mean?
Noun. bourach. a rope tied round the back legs of a cow to prevent it from kicking during milking.
What does BIRL mean in Scots?
to spin; twirl
(bɜːl , Scottish bɪrl ) verb. 1. Scottish. to spin; twirl.
How do you say shut your mouth in Scottish?
“Haud yer wheesht!” Translation: “Keep your mouth shut!”
What do Scottish people call balls?
Baws. Balls or testicles. Variants include bawsack and bawbag.
What does Boorach mean in Scottish?
a mess
From Scottish Gaelic bùrach (“digging; earthworks; disorder”). The semantic development, already in Gaelic and continued in Scots, seems to go from digging, to digging a mound or trench, to a mess.
What do you call someone who is obsessed with Scotland?
The Latin name for Scotland is Caledonia, so I would assume, in keeping with the other Latin names (Anglo-phile, Hiberno-phile and Cambro-phile), a person with an affinity for all things Scottish would be a Caledonophile.
What does TIRL mean?
Definition of tirl intransitive verb. chiefly Scotland : to make a rattling sound (as with a door latch) transitive verb. chiefly Scotland : twirl.
What does it mean to BIRL?
1 : spin. 2 : to cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading. intransitive verb. : to progress by whirling. Other Words from birl Synonyms Example Sentences Learn More About birl.
What is a Barnpot?
noun. someone who is idiot, unintelligent. Get to it, you barnpot!
What is a Bampot in Scotland?
Other newly included Scottish words include bam, bampot and bamstick, which mean someone who is foolish, annoying, obnoxious, belligerent or disruptive.
What is a Caledonophile?
What is the origin of the word ‘fankle’?
Although its older verbal uses are documented by the Dictionary of the Scots Language as ‘to catch in a snare, to trap’, the modern sense of the word is more often ‘to tangle’, and it is very widely used in journalistic and other writing. The verb fankle is related to the now less common word fank (to twist, tangle; to snare, catch in a noose).
What is fankl’t?
There’s jist a possibeelity it micht ha’e got fankl’t on an owerhangin’ brench or the root o’ a tree. 2. tr. To tangle, ravel, mix up (Sc. 1818 Sawers; Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl ., fangle; Abd. 7 1925; em. and wm.Sc., Wgt., Kcb., Rxb. 1950).
Is Broadfoot ‘getting himself in a fankle’?
Earlier this year, the BBC’s Scottish Sport pages observed that Kilmarnock player Kirk Broadfoot was ‘getting himself in a fankle’ with the appointment of manager Lee McCulloch.