Dictionaries of the Scots Language

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FLAUCHTER: ‘To pare turf from the ground’ (dsl.ac.uk/our-publicatio…). This is done with a flauchter-spade, which is, “a two-handed spade with a broad heart-shaped blade used for cutting surface turf”. The cut pieces of turf are flauchter-fail, fail being a #Scots word for turf.
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Oct 17
PASSREMARKABLE: ‘Too ready to comment’ (dsl.ac.uk/our-publicatio…). The earliest example we've found is from a 1945 edition of the Scotsman, which asserts the term as “peculiar to Glasgow”. #Scots
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Oct 10
CHEERYBYE: ‘A cheerful farewell greeting’ (dsl.ac.uk/our-publicatio…). This is indeed a #Scots term, and the Oxford English Dictionary agrees that it is “originally and chiefly Scottish”. As Ena Lamont Stewart writes in Men Shall Weep (1947): “Well, I awa. Cheeribye, everybody”.
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Oct 3
JEDDART SNAILS: ‘A kind of toffee sold in Jedburgh’ (dsl.ac.uk/our-publicatio…). 🐌 A more detailed description appeared in the Scotsman in April 1958: “They tase of the sweetness of brown sugar blended with the richness of real butter and flavoured with mild peppermint.” #Scots
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Oct 1
Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Today, we're shinin a licht on Sheena Blackhall's 'The Spikk o the Nor East Leid', a journey frae the early #Scots Makars tae the lively #Doric o the day: youtube.com/watch?v=j8efqv…. Fir mair braw poems visit dsl.ac.uk/our-publicatio….
Sheena Blackhall – The Spikk o the Nor East Leid
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