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hugh

the idea was for me to try and ascertain the meaning of the word - not you tell me............................................................!

I would have been hard pressed to come up with the meaning of glaikit or begrutten with out the context.

note glasgow and it's hot spots are 20 miles or so from you - so why don't you go in one of your cars? maybe parking is difficult, but it should be ok in the evening?

I'm sure there's plenty of live entertainment/jazz going on............................................

colin t


From: HUGH 
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 4:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [BITList] dissent


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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