Wednesday, February 15, 2006

I love Scotch! Scottish!

Three Scottish words starting with the letter W:

waesucks
interjection
Used to express pity.

wallydraigle
noun
A feeble, imperfectly developed, or slovenly creature.

whigmaleerie
noun
1. Whim.
2. An odd or fanciful contrivance: gimcrack.

source for all three: answers.com

I love Scottish words for being so

fanciful
adjective
1. Created in the fancy; unreal: a fanciful story.
2. Tending to indulge in fancy: a fanciful mind.
3. Showing invention or whimsy in design; imaginative.
"fanciful." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 15 Feb. 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/fanciful