Scottish Insults Quiz Answers:
- 1: A term that describes a nasty venomous malignant bad tempered bitter individual?
- Snottery – one's nose, particularly when one has a very bad cold, or have been crying excessively.
- Attery – infested, grim, malignant.
- Fykery – fussing over trifling matters, fidgety.
- Pernickety – obsessive compulsive attention to detail.
- 2: A stupid person, a blockhead?
- Gowfer – golfer - no criticism implied, if one wants to chase a wee white ball around a field - well…
- Gamaleerie – a foolish clumsy person.
- Gomerel – blockhead, half-witted.
- Gove – stare stupidly or vacantly, wander aimlessly (nickname for a headmaster).
- 3: A despicable creature or person - untamed uncivilised and probably contaminated?
- Wilrone – savage creature, untamed.
- Rackle – a chain, the clanking or rattling of a chain, ramshackle.
- Radge – rage madly, violently excited.
- Halliracker – hare-brained.
- 4: The act of excrement, excrement itself, or one's stated judgement on deciding that the utterances of another are of an excremental non value?
- Kebbock – a whole cheese.
- Bojoed – fooled out of something, swindled.
- Moutit – moulted, untidy, scruffy.
- Keech – excrement, defecate.
- 5: someone or something which makes you hang back, hesitate, one who gives you a feeling of aversion, loathing, distaste and disgust?
- Scunner – disgust, cause revulsion.
- Stank – a moat, a pond, a semi stagnant body of water, a slow moving drain.
- Knapdarloch – a knot of crap and dirt hanging from the coat or tail of an animal, term of contempt for a person.
- Yokit – attach, join, to yoke.
- 6: A person deserving contempt and ridicule, a person who is in a sorry state and inviting of scorn? Be careful, it is not the obvious answer.
- Callour – fresh caught, picked or gathered, cool, refreshing.
- Trump – deceive, cheat, a thing of small value.
- Munsie – odd looking person, person in a sorry state who has been knocked about, one who invites ridicule.
- Furlie – a piece of machinery or equipment, esp. one that revolves or has wheels.
- 7: A small weak or worthless person animal or thing?
- Wirrock – a corn, a bunion, a knot in wood.
- Spung – infested, grim, malignant.
- Tarloch – small weak or worthless creature, squeamish.
- Gibble – obsessive compulsive attention to detail.
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Some other words used in the feedback many of which you will have been given over the course of the quiz.
- bauchle – old, worn or twisted shoe, a person of no account.
- bummer – bumble bee, insects that buzz, an idiot.
- chancer – opportunist.
- cleverality – cleverness.
- coof – a rogue, fool, coward.
- daeless – helpless, useless.
- doup – one's bottom.
- drochle – a short dumpy person.
- dunderheid –a stupid person.
- dwaible – feeble weak person.
- feckfu – powerful, effective.
- gallus – bold, confident, forward in manner, rascally.
- gawkin – being clumsy.
- gype – stare foolishly open mouthed, play the fool.
- harnless – very stupid, brainless.
- idilset – shy of hard work, lazyness, idleness, unemployment.
- loupit – jumped, riddled with fleas.
- menseless – unmannerly, stupid, foolish.
- numpty – an idiot.
- rousie – restless, easily excited, lively.
- sharnie – smeared with excrement (cattle, sheep).
- teuchter – bumpkin, country boy from the sticks.
- vaudie – ostentatious.
- vauntie – proud, boastful, vain.
- warslin – struggling, hard working.