Hi all đ A nice easy one today, dug (dog).
Other names for mans best friend are dowg & hund. In the NE they’re known as bowf(er).
Whilst on the subject of dugs, there are a lot of names for barking; as a verb — bouch, wow, youwf, yaff, youch. From a large dog, bowf. A surpressed bark, wowff. To bark rapidly is to yabble đ As a noun — bouch, yamph, wow, yowf, bowf. Low pitched is wowff and a sharp supressed bark is a whink.
All the Scots words for these posts are taken from The Concise English-Scots Dictionary, by the Scottish National Dictionary Association. The words chosen will be the generally accepted term, but as in all languages there are regional variations, as well as sub-species variations. For example, an owl is generally known as a hoolet in Scots, but an ool in Shetland & the NE. A barn owl is a white hoolet & a long eared owl, a hornnie hoolet.
Hae a guid day đ
The barking words are fabulous. A yabble is what our little puppy does most often.
Yabble is my favourite word đ đ Is the word for growl in there Jez?
There’s a few for growl, as a verb: grool, gurr, gurl, wurr, snagger, grunch. As a noun: gurr, gurrie-wurrie (my favourite), gurl, wurr, habber, grunch đ
gurrie-wurrie is fab indeed đ
Love these. Now I have verbs for my dog Pasta, who yabbles often and whinks when she remembers she isn’t supposed to bark.
I love that your dog’s called Pasta; good combo of Scots đ