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[HUGH]

Colin,

I can add glaikit to sleekit. Sleekit seems to have acquired a different shade of meaning from when Burns used it sympathetically in To A Mouse - "Wee sleekit, cowerin', timorous beastie."  Glaikit and gormless are similar in meaning.  Apprentices and junior engineers were often glaikit, as in, "You dropped it on my foot, ya glaikit %$^&^£$ eejit !!"  Another one, a favourite of my wife, is begrutten (she came from Linwood, a hotbed of strange words) - a tear-stained child wi' a snottery nose could be described as begrutten.

Glasgow (and its jazz) is above 20 miles from here, so it's the late night transport (train then bus) that's the problem. Son Andrew who lives up above Byres Road has a futon, so one of these days I might cadge B&B from him.

The weevir pun is still obscure.

Hugh.
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