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“Is that why you're tasking me with all these daft questions - because that clavering auld clype Owen Williams has told you that Billy Cumming put his hand on mine once or twice at the baccarat?”
“It's but the country clype I'll ne'er deny, gweed forbid”
“A body in my trade canna help fa'in 'amo' ill company whiles, for we're a 'born in sin, an' brocht furth in ineequity, as the Buik. says; in fac ', it's a' sin thegither: we come o 'sin an' we gang for sin; but ye ken the likes o 'me maunna clype (tell tales).”
“He used to clype (tell tales) upo' them, though. ”
“I'm a great coortier, ladies, you must know, and am in love wid every purty girl I meet -- but sure that's only natural; however, as I was sayin ', it's not to a clype or a pair of smooth-in' irons I'll produce such stockins 'as these!”
“An’ I told Wee Jean it was a hoodie crow to scare her ’cos she’s a wee clype an’ my dad would thrash me if he knew we were ringing doorbells.”
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Dr. Jamieson on Human Nature
Unflattering Scots terms and nicknames for people and their perceived or imagined foibles, follies, and failings. Gleaned from Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
abbey-laird, donnat, donsie, doncie, braw-warld, falsar, gileynour, gilainger, gillet, gillflirt, gy, haniel and 105 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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A guid Scotch tongue
dreich, teuchter, crabbit, fankle, feart, ne'erday, skelp, haud yer wheesht, Jock Tamson's bairns, clype, gie it laldy, sleekit and 34 more...
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other people's dialects
stocious, clype, stramash, langers, reet, sneeped, logy, glakit, halleyracket, breenge, sook, a face like the m... and 7 more...
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hernesheir To be loquacious; to tattle. A tell-tale, always applied to a woman. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. Cf. clyper.
A drudge; an ugly ill-shaped fellow.
Jun 24, 2011
jinglebelljosie verb. to tell tales about, slander, gossip Oct 28, 2008
bilby Scots - informer, tell-tale. Aug 2, 2008