Scottish Words illustrated

Given up, or done well?
Anyway, here are the answers, I hope you'll keep visiting.

31, October, 2003.

Tounser Quiz Answers:

1. A person employed to go about the town to wake folk up in time for work?
Chapper-up

2. A balcony giving access to several front doors on a tennement?
Plettie

3. A person who collects and empties the bins?
Scaffie

4. A non flattering term describing a city dweller?
Tounser.

5. A rough tough male city dweller?
Keelie.

6. An attendant looking after a building such as schools and universities?
Jannie.

7. A drain by the side of the road to take away rainwater?
Cundie