That's us hauf-wey shrou #Scotstober / #Scotstober2026 an A fair howp ye'r enjoyin takkin pairt, or juist readin ither fowk's stuff.

Ye'll ken it wis aw a bit hame-knittit an last-meenit this year. As A says at the stert o the month but, gin we cannae dae this wursels whit daes it say aboot us?

#Scotstober 2026 16
Tube: whan ma freen’s laddie (a best man) tried oan his kilt an it wis back tae front, the faimily ca’d im a tube! His brither (the groom) ca’d him a sumph!

#Scotstober 2026 day 16
Bridie- a foldit ower roond o pastry fu o meat an ingins. A Forfar bridie haes a braw taste aa its ain!

#Scotstober #greet

A key scene in my forthcoming novel, Maggie Walls Wood

#Scotstober Day 16

TUBE - (pron. “choob”). Term o abuse. No the warst thing tae cry a bodie, A'll be candid wi ye. A mean, yer grannie cud cry ye a tube while slaggin aff yer conspeeracy theories e.g. “Nae wey chemtrails ur real, ya wee tube!” On a par wi numpty, insult-wise. Repeat efter me: TUBE.

#Scotstober 2026 day 15
Pawkie: shy, seemin no likin tae pit thirsel forrit, but mibbe a bittie sleekit an ‘worth a watchin’!

Pawkies- ma mither yaised tae knit pawkies - mittins wi jist a thumb an the ither fingers thegither in ae bit.

Fae Galloway Gossip (1901):
"There use't tae be a rhyme tae cry at the Castle Douglas folk:

Whun Wyllie Douglas, pawkie loon,
Had got tae hae a shirt,
He made aul' Causeway-en a toon,
An ca't it Castle Dirt.

An Castle-Dirt's the name it get's tae the present day."

#Scotstober Day 15 PAWKIE

#Scotstober Day 15

PAWKIE - This wird can mean a gey wheen things e.g. sleekit, rogueish, cannie. The yin A'm gaun wi the day is sardonic, haein a dry sense o humour. Here a bit o Chic Murray's PAWKIE patter: “Kippers: fish that like a lot of sleep.” Repeat efter me: PAWKIE.

#Scotstober #pawkie

An unused fragment from my current work in progress, Maggie Walls Wood.

#Scotstober #Quine
A Doric word, so not something my Perthshire characters would say, but in Barvick Falls they did take a trip north to Mintlaa, so it did get a brief airing.

#scotstober Day 15 - quine - a young woman or girl

ahm no a quine
no a carline
no a wifie
naebody cries me hen
or missus
ahm a wummin
an auld soul a new soul
a body in mah body

#Scotstober Day 14 2026
Frawart (thrawn)
“He wid cut aff his neb tae spite his face!”

#Scotstober Day 14
Clype: A clype is somebidy that gaes a ahint yer back tae tell on ye. Naebidy likes a clype!

#Scotstober #frawart

From my short story, Bog an Lochan, which has just been shortlisted for the Dorothy Dunnett short story prize.

#scotstober Day 14 - deave/deeve - to annoy, to deafen

murrin at mah feet
ah can maistly forget
she wis deavin me fur fuid
i thi wee oors

#Scotstober, too. ⬆️

#Scotstober Day 14

FRAWART (THRAWN) - Contermacious. An A'm urnae sae FRAWART as tae stick wi “thrawn” as ma Scotstober wird for the day seein as hou @leftpeggers.bsky.social haed it on thair leet twa days syne. Sae insteid A'll gang wi it's sib FRAWART. Repeat efter me: FRAWART.

#scotstober Day 13 - stroop/stroup - a spout

thi caul leavin mah banes
lik thi hush frae thi kettle's stroup

#Scotstober 2026 Day 13
Stroup. We haed ane o thae joog kettils. Ilka time it cam tae the bile it daed a dance, an hauf the watter in it splattirt oot o the stroup.

#Scotstober 2026 day 13
Gesserant -anither new yin tae me.

A warrior frae days lang syne stridlin a horse, bedeckit in glentin gesserant.