Editors have shared the modern everyday words that are set to be included in the updated Scots language dictionary. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

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SCOTTISH football has helped get the word “stonewaller” into the Oxford English Dictionary. A new meaning for “stonewaller” has been included in the dictionary to reflect it being Scots colloquial ...

A WORDS whizz has told of her joy at getting bawbag in the dictionary — as well as bampot, baffie, bidie-in and bowfing. Fiona McPherson, 47, admitted seeing the slang lingo officially acknowledged in ...

An online Scottish dictionary aimed at revitalising the Scots tongue has been launched. The project has incorporated the 12 volumes of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and all 10 of the ...

At the beginning of 2004 anyone will be able to access the definitive usage of any Scots word, ancient or modern, for free. The process of putting both the Scottish National Dictionary and the ...

A series of Scottish words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. More than 10 new Scottish entries have been recorded in the newest version of the dictionary. On ...

IF you have ever wanted a word to describe the sound made by walking in wet mud or perhaps that of a quaking bog, then this volume of nature-themed Scots words is a delight to leaf through. The idea ...

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OXFORD, England, May 1 (UPI) -- A handwritten dictionary of Scottish words and phrases compiled by James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson, has turned up at Oxford University. The Bodleian ...

Editors have included more than 40 Scottish words including the slang term for the scrotum which is defined as a 'foolish or annoying' person THE word bawbag has been added to the latest edition of ...