The Raw Wonder of Word Rage in Scotland--Reb MacRath
No one can cuss like a Scotsman. Or produce comparable musical pow. We may not always understand it (non-Scottish viewers of Trainspotting understood on average 3.5% of the dialect and no one understood more than 5.2%). And yet we are enthralled by the music, the vigor, the volume, the force of whatever it may be we've heard. Tourists may turn to cheat sheets like this for basic, cleaner Scottish slang: bairn - baby (jist a wee bairn!) or small child. baffies - slippers. bahoochie- bottom bampot - an idiot, unhinged person (He is a bampot) barry - fantastic (That's pure barry) bastart - bastard, also, rarely, a peculiar term of endearment ("Awright Ted ya wee bastart") bawheid - ballhead, bald, empty headed, stupid (oh, you ya bawheid!) belter - to be excellent, great, fantastic. But there's no way to prepare for the explosive impact of off the cuff Scottish invective. The good news is no help's required for us to be blown through th...