Transcript PowerPoint file: Scots 'Call my bluff' game

Scots “Call my bluff”
questions based on the Concise
Scots Dictionary
To play
You will be given ten words
Each word has three possible definitions
Click on the definition you think is right
Guid luck!
stravaigin
…(noun) a dark beer brewed in Morayshire
Used in the name of well-known Glasgow restaurant
…(verb) wander about with no sense of purpose
"The Scots midfield spend more time stravaigin
than anything else."
… (noun) seaweed found on the Hebrides used as
fodder for the famed ling cattle
ablach
… (noun) a mangled animal carcass: “at first the
two boys thought it was a rock but quickly realised
from the smell it was a rotting ablach”
… (noun) a short rope used by fishermen to tie
themselves to the deck during fierce storms.
… (noun) a musician will keep the mouthpiece of
his chanter clean using a lint-free cloth called an
ablach
scronach
… (adj) naïve, as in the famous Bothy Ballad: “I wiz a
roch, scronach loon a thochtie contermacious / Nae
inclint tae be telt ava / A plooky pilliedacus”
… (noun) a ploughman's piece bag made from calf
leather: “he realised fairly quickly that the mice had
been at his scronach”
… (noun) a loud cry or shriek: “they all looked up from
their porridge when they heard a loud scronach”
ort
… (noun) old Orcadian from the Viking word for a
small rowing boat: “hanging over the bow of the ort
he could see the sea bed”
… (noun) waste or leftovers: “the largest cat called
Callum was a picky eater and there was always ort
to be thrown out”
... (noun) a standard measure for beer used by
publicans in Glasgow and the West of Scotland
jinipperous
…(adjective) requiring dexterity: “work in the jute
mills of Dundee was very jinipperous”.
… (noun) the sap of the juniper tree: “the
jinipperous poultice brought down the swelling in
no time”
…(adj) finicky or particular: “as a boy he was very
jinipperous in his eating habits”
driffle
…(noun) a long piece of string used by a farmer to
plough a field along straight furrows
… (noun) a very small oar used to manoeuvre an
old Scots coracle: "he knew he was up the burn
without a driffle"
… (verb) word of Flemish origin meaning to rain or
snow lightly “When he woke on the hillside, it had
already started to driffle”
brose
…(noun) a meal made from oats or pease meal
mixed with boiling water. “a good plate of brose set
him up for a hard day’s work.”
…(noun) a large group of crows “the old
gamekeeper could hardly hear himself think over
the noise coming from the brose above his shelter.”
…(noun) a good old fashioned punch-up. “There
wasn't a weekend which went by without some form
of brose”
ramstoorie
… (adj) slapdash. “The spark we had working in the
house was a real ramstoorie character.”
… (noun) a protective cover used by shepherds to
cover the broken horns of cattle that had been injured.
…(noun) a tool used by chimney sweeps to clear
blockages. “Rab Black struggled to get finished
without his ramstoorie.”
gadgie
… (noun) colloquial name for a young chap commonly
used in the north east of Scotland
…(noun) in a flock of geese the gadgie is the
equivalent of the runt of a pig litter: “All the geese
produced eggs apart from the wee gadgie”.
… (noun) small hooked tool for pulling crabs out from
under rocks: “I lost my gadgie down by the beach at
Gourock.”
fauchle
… (noun) a small spinning top toy made from an animal
bone like a pig’s knuckle.
… (noun) an untrustworthy character.
“I wouldn't buy a used car from that fauchle”
… (verb) to walk with difficulty: “he struggled to get up
the hill and trudged along with a real fauchle”
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Answers
stravaigin (v)
- wander about with no sense of purpose
scronach (n)
- loud cry or shriek
ablach (n)
- mangled animal carcase
ort (n)
- what is useless or cast aside
jinipperous (adj) - finicky, over-particular
driffle (v)
- to drizzle rain or snow lightly
brose (n)
- dish of oatmeal or pease meal
ramstoorie
- vigourous but slapdash, rough and ready
gadgie (n)
- a man or a fellow
fauchle (v)
- walk with difficulty because of lack of strength