Stooryduster.

My brother sent me this link illustrating and defining the Scots word sook (SND), given as “sycophant, crawler, toady, to fawn and flatter” with the sample sentence “Ah’ve heard o sookin in wi the boss Smithers but this is takin it ower far. Yir fired!” I enjoyed the word, of course, but I was thrilled that it was from a most enjoyable site I hadn’t been familiar with, Stooryduster: The Scottish Language is full of attitude, great on the ear, emotive, and the words are not too far from English which makes them globally accessible. I hear and speak Scots every day. Perfect for me to illustrate and translate. It seems to have been quiescent for over a year — the latest entry is Curl-doddy, from April 22, 2025 (defined as “The devil’s bit scabious, the seed-bearing stem of the ribwort plantain, clover, both red and white and other such round headed flowers”: “Ye canni ca it curl-doddie, that’s for the deil’s bit scabious frae the Scabiosa family, an dinni snigger”) — but the archives go…