Oor Wullie: Jings! Crivvens! Help Ma Boab!

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Anyway “doable” is probably not a real word, but we use it in scotland anyway, because we don’t care what anybody else thinks. We “kudnae gee a toss” or “kudnae gee a monkeys”, which both equate to something like “We could not care less” or in unidiomatic terms “We are indifferent to the outcome”. Now where were we, oh yes the title phrase. wean - (pronounced "Wayne") the youngest of the family, sometimes the youngest sibling. Truncation of "wee ane" or little one. ( give that to the wean!). When I saw Suzann on 16, she told me a couple of things, and I was like, 'I'm just going to do this for her, because I love her and she deserves this'." Each of them expresses the notion of amazement or bewonderment but, with the addition of By or Holy, it multiplies the severity of the emotion felt by the speaker, holy being the greater of the 2.

And the Spaniard delivered. She almost holed her tee shot to the delight of the thousands that had surrounded the par-three 17th. A stunned Korda leaked her effort left and could only chip five feet beyond the hole. The American holed her putt, leaving Ciganda with a putt to win that crucial 14th point.session / sesh - a night out drinking ( Me and the boys had a hoora session the other night) - This is also a term used in some parts of England and Northern Ireland. Axel Koehler, ‘Patricians, Politics and Porridge Olympics – the Scottish Highland Games and the Swiss Unspunnen Festival and the Idea of the Noble Savage’ (p. 33), in International Journal of Ethnosport and Traditional Games, (1)(2019), 32–59.

Everybody knows Oor Wullie – Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A’body’s Wullie! This is the well-known tagline on the cover of every annual collection of the Oor Wullie comic strips. Wullie, the fair-haired eight- or nine-year-old boy who lives in the fictitious Scottish town of Auchenshoogle, is the hero of many hilarious situations, getting into trouble with the authorities as he goes to school or church. With its nostalgic “Scotticized” language – and outfits – one simply must like Wullie. And this is the way it has been now for a remarkably long time. roaster - Someone who is making a complete cunt of themselves ( Here, did ye see that roaster oan the X-Factor the other night?) Squinty Bridge - colloquial name for a bridge in Glasgow between Finnieston and Govan, officially named the Clyde Arc so named as it is on a diagonal A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the strip.

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