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Tag: Scots

  • Dug — Animal in Scots #23

    Dug — Animal in Scots #23

    Hi All 👋 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 yabbleAs 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

  • Bumbee — Animals in Scots #22

    Bumbee — Animals in Scots #22

    Hi All 👋 Bumbee (bee) is today’s animal in Scots.

    There are many other names for the bee: bummer, bummie, droner, foggie, foggie toddler. A bee with red markings behind is a reid-arsie, a black and yellow striped is a gairie-bee, and a yellow, stingless is a cannie nannie.

    Bumbee by Jez Braithwaite
    Bumbee
    Drookit wee bumble by Jez Braithwaite
    Drookit wee bumbee

    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

  • Butterie — Animals in Scots #21

    Butterie — Animals in Scots #21

    Hi All 👋 Today’s Animal in Scots is the butterie (butterfly).

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  • Hielan Coo — Animals in Scots #20

    Hielan Coo — Animals in Scots #20

    Hi All 👋 The Hielan Coo (highland cow) is today’s Animal in Scots.

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  • Craw — Animals in Scots #19

    Craw — Animals in Scots #19

    Hi All 👋 Todays Animals in Scots is the craw (crow).

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  • Reid Rab — Animals in Scots #18

    Reid Rab — Animals in Scots #18

    Hi All 👋 This totie wee reid Rab (robin) is today’s Animals in Scots.

    Another name for the robin is “mason’s ghost”; I had to do some digging into this one! The following is an exerpt from the dictionary of the Scots Language: The Mason’s Ghost: I have heard this ominous name applied in Jedburgh to the harmless Robin-redbreast, with allusion, I believe, to the fact that during frosty or snowy weather, when masons are unable to work and therefore stay more at home, the emboldened bird, unable to get its natural food (i.e., worms, &c.), may be said to “haunt” dwellings, frequently also entering them, in search of sustenance.

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  • Moose — Animals in Scots #17

    Moose — Animals in Scots #17

    Hi All 👋 If you guessed a big animal with antlers, you were wrongThe diminutive moose (mouse) is today’s Animal in Scots.

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  • Maggie — Animals in Scots #16

    Maggie — Animals in Scots #16

    Hi All 👋 The maggie (magpie) is today’s feature on Animals in Scots.

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  • Deuk’s Dub — Animals in Scots #15

    Deuk’s Dub — Animals in Scots #15

    Hi All 👋 Today’s Animal in Scots is a spin off from post #13 — Deuk’s Dub (Duck Pond).

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