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The latest newsletter ‘Keeping in Touch’ Dementia Voices East Dunbartonshire

The latest newsletter from Dementia Voices, East Dunbartonshire including this challenge! 7 Newsletter – Hospital Visits (1)

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

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