(UK, Lancashire, dialect, obsolete) A great blaze, or something that dazzles.
(UK, Lancashire, dialect, obsolete) A great blaze, or something that dazzles.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Scotland, Northern England) A heavy fall of rain.
(Scotland, Northern England, of rain) To pour heavily.
(Scotland) A state of perplexity.
A Scottish dialect word with several related meanings: as a noun, a state of confusion or perplexity; as a transitive verb, to perplex or confuse someone; and as an intransitive verb, to stutter or stammer. All senses share an underlying idea of something being muddled or disrupted. Primarily historical Scottish usage, found in Scottish literature and dialect dictionaries but not in living everyday speech. It has an expressive, bumbling quality that makes it appealing in historical fiction set in Scotland.