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These are some words that are not used a lot nowadays which are in the Scots Dictionary. Can you place the right answer to each word?
Midden
Shoogly
Fankle
Lousing off
Fecket (not a swear word)
Crabbit
Dookit
Nock
Steamie
Nodge
Scunner
Skelp
Glaikit
Backles
Sleekit
Now match the English version with the Scots above:
A clock
A physical blow
An entanglement
Deceitful
Dove cote
Dunhill, also a place in a back yard where the bins are stored
Finish work, a freedom from bondage
Foolish
Insecure
Jacket
Old shoes
Short tempered
ill-natured
To feel upset
To strike with the knuckles
Wash house for public bathing and clothes washing