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Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers; Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West-Central Scots, but which shows strong influences from Irish English, its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards GSE ...
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a good-for-nothing noun: From Scots hallion meaning "rascal". [39] hesp a scolding old woman noun: Perhaps from Irish easpan. [40] Cf. Scots hesper: a hard thing to do; a difficult person to get on with. [41] hoak, hoke: to search for/to forage (e.g. "Have a hoak for it") verb: From Scots howk. [42] hooley: party noun: Origin unknown; perhaps a ...
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.It features a character called Wullie; Wullie is a Scots nickname for boys named William, equivalent to Willie.
Scottish boy names: Find Scottish baby names for boys that are cool, classic, different, cute and strong. Get Scottish baby name ideas here. 192 Scottish boy names to consider for your little ...
Scottish soap opera River City has featured neds such as Shellsuit Bob. [18] Neds is a 2010 film by director Peter Mullan . [ 19 ] A 2020 Graeme Armstrong novel, The Young Team , set in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire a few miles east of Glasgow and narrated by a gang member in the local dialect , focuses on the 'ned culture' of the region in the ...
Scottish and North English dialect. laddie A boy. lassie A girl. links Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge). pernickety From pernicky. minging literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming". plaid From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation. pony
A hairstyle popular in the second half of the 17th century. French braid: A French braid is a braid that appears to be braided "into" the hair, often described as braided backwards—strands, going over instead of under as in a Dutch braid. French twist: A hairstyle wherein the hair is twisted behind the head into a sort of bun style. Fringe ...