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Search Results for: bile boil - 10 Scottish word posts.

A Rat sipping wine, a Dragon heating a kettle with its breath and a Unicorn knitting are sitting around a picnic on a pleasant summer's evening.

Scottish Word: Bile.

Tags: cakes, dragon, knitting, scarf, tea, unicorn, wine, wool

A Rat sipping wine, a Dragon heating a kettle with its breath and a Unicorn knitting are sitting around a picnic on a pleasant summer's evening.

I think the kettle’s bilin noo Sparky, onie mair heat and ye’ll hae its erse melted awa. And whaur’ll we be with oor tea perty then! Oot! Oot o tea. That’s what. Noo pit yer bilet … Continue reading Bile. →

cakes, dragon, knitting, scarf, tea, unicorn, wine, wool
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Tasting and sampling the contents of very large pots in the cellar of a sook.

Scottish Word: Abile.

Tags: arches, body, boiling, cellar, Death, jar, oil, pot, sandals, thieves, turban

Tasting and sampling the contents of very large pots in the cellar of a sook.

“Ahm no sure but ahm thinking one o the forty thieves was still in there when we filled it fou wi the lard abile.” Translate: abile: boiling. “I am not certain but I think one of … Continue reading Abile. →

arches, body, boiling, cellar, Death, jar, oil, pot, sandals, thieves, turban
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Two customers at a metal table under a cloud of dark smutty smoke from the chef frying something on gas that looks red hot.

Scottish Word: Birsle.

Tags: chef, cooking, gas, gloves, smoke, soot, table

Two customers at a metal table under a cloud of dark smutty smoke from the chef frying something on gas that looks red hot.

He’s a cuik tae be reckoned wi. Nae blitterie biled farin here. Bruckle scowdered reekin spicy divots tae nip ‘n birsle the mou an mak the een weep is the wye ahn ye need a cast … Continue reading Birsle. →

chef, cooking, gas, gloves, smoke, soot, table
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Two aliens boiling a frog above Scotland.

Scottish Word: Oan.

Tags: badge, clipboard, earth, frog, gas, pencil, pipe, space

Two aliens boiling a frog above Scotland.

They’re no wice. I ken they ken oan frae aff. I’ve pooerit the mense o human kind frae planet earth into thon puddock. AND it kens hoo tae work thon oan & aff furlie tae turn … Continue reading Oan. →

badge, clipboard, earth, frog, gas, pencil, pipe, space
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An offended feisty little girl turns an insulting misogynist into a toad.

Scottish Word: Lassie.

Tags: apron, flash, shoes, socks, toad, witch

An offended feisty little girl turns an insulting misogynist into a toad.

Dinni tell tae me “simmer doon hen”. Fur yer clack yer a puddock noo. For ah dinni simmer I bile, nor ahm ah a hen. Ah’m a bonnie lassie ahn foreby a bonnie witch. Ya puddock. … Continue reading Lassie. →

apron, flash, shoes, socks, toad, witch
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A goldfish in a surface o mobile trying to get back to the water before it is boiled alive.

Scottish Word: Foond.

Tags: bowl, bubbles, fish, hot, sand, sun, toad

A goldfish in a surface o mobile trying to get back to the water before it is boiled alive.

Ah foond the test puddocks they aw het up biled wi-oot noticin in their surface-o-mobile bubbles when the sun kem oot. I massel ahm oer het ahn gonna huv tae initiate the emergency bubble launch doon-hill … Continue reading Foond. →

bowl, bubbles, fish, hot, sand, sun, toad
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Giant alien in an unusual breather suit on an alien world gripping in its claws a man in a wig and kilt.

Scottish Word: Mou.

Tags: balloon, bottles, fangs, gas, goggles, tentacles

Giant alien in an unusual breather suit on an alien world gripping in its claws a man in a wig and kilt.

Noo you’ll notice hoo ma muckle mou is kept clear o this breathin apparatus which intubates me via ma neb. Tae be clear this’s been designed that wye tae keep mha mou free tae gobble up … Continue reading Mou. →

balloon, bottles, fangs, gas, goggles, tentacles
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Man driving a wee red car trailed by a cast iron boiler and blanketed in soot, smoke and steam.

Scottish Word: Pouer.

Tags: car, driver, fire, goggles, hose, smoke, soot, steam

Man driving a wee red car trailed by a cast iron boiler and blanketed in soot, smoke and steam.

I’d like tae introduce my compact steam pouered car. The doon side is I need tae pou the biler ahint me. Ahm workin oan it. Translate: pouer, pooer: power. I’d like to introduce my compact steam … Continue reading Pouer. →

car, driver, fire, goggles, hose, smoke, soot, steam
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Buttered toasted soldier chasing a boiled egg.

Scottish Word: Yella.

Tags: butter, egg, kilt, knife, toast, yellow

Buttered toasted soldier chasing a boiled egg.

Jings! A muckle buttered finger o toast chasin a biled egg wi a yella mou. The things ye see when ye dinni huv yer gun. Translate: yella: yellow. Crumbs! A giant buttered finger of toast chasing … Continue reading Yella. →

butter, egg, kilt, knife, toast, yellow
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A husband and enthusiastic wife's first time at estimating quantities for jam making.

Scottish Word: pilk.

Tags: cooking, food, gooseberries, gooseberry, jam, jam-jars, jelly, kitchen, marriage

A husband and enthusiastic wife's first time at estimating quantities for jam making.

“Right! You pilk the goosegogs and I’ll get the jeelie pan on ready tae cook ahn bile.” Translate: pilk: top and tail, shell, peel. “Right! You top and tail the gooseberries and I’ll get the jam … Continue reading pilk. →

cooking, food, gooseberries, gooseberry, jam, jam-jars, jelly, kitchen, marriage
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Girl with a handful of botanical posters of clover, devils bit scabious, and narrow leaved plantain yelling at her brother who is lying in the grass among daisies and buttercups admiring the seed heads of rib-wort plantain (scabiosa lanceolata). All on a sunny day.
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Two women in protective head scarfs and greatcoats with a gas powered heater emitting steam strapped to their backs stroll in front of two brutalist style apartment blocks where a couple with a fire burning in the hallway peer out. Meanwhile ash and dust fall like snow from a blackened sky.
Fliskie.
A dolphin on the surface of a calm sea and has red a contraption fitted to its back with wires running from a steering wheel to suckers attached to its flippers. Sitting in the open cockpit of the contraption sits a man with goggles and a snorkel listening to a mermaid that only has her head above the translucent waters.
Piece-time.
A male and female dwarf with red pointy hats, blue aprons and gardening implements are harvesting large red berries from a large leafy fruitful plant that is watching them from eyes in its root below ground. The view below ground shows the large gnarled root clutching the bones of previous burials in amongst the earth and stones.
Vivre.

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