Words and their Definitions

[Doodoo]

Paradigm

Paradigm is a noun that can refer to grammar, a pattern, or a framework of assumptions.

Example: “There needs to be a paradigm shift if we’re ever going to make progress on the issue.”

[Doodoo]

lollygag
verb | LAH-lee-gag

What It Means

To lollygag is to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious, or in other words, to fool around and waste time.

// Stop lollygagging and get to work!

// The player was kicked off the team for lollygagging during practice.

[Doodoo]

Hurkle-durkling is a Scottish term for longing in bed

[AlexO]

Hurkle-durkling is a Scottish term for longing in bed

Not in any part of Scotland that I have been.
Hunker Doon, yes, but the above term? Maybe a couple of hundred years ago.

[Whistler]

lollygag
verb | LAH-lee-gag

What It Means

To lollygag is to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious, or in other words, to fool around and waste time.

// Stop lollygagging and get to work!

// The player was kicked off the team for lollygagging during practice.

Lollygag is also used to describe a trip to a conference or event that is mainly for personal pleasure but paid by the company. I have had the pleasure of hosting a corporate box at main stadiums in Australia. Good food, a beer wench and great time entertaining customers and business contacts.

A real lollygag

[Doodoo]

ALEXz
Maybe a little research before commenting or just getting out and about
https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/ ... in-4491313

Also on Who wants to be a Millionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqFSI51CVI

[AlexO]

ALEXz
Maybe a little research before commenting or just getting out and about
https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/ ... in-4491313

Also on Who wants to be a Millionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqFSI51CVI

Hopefully you read the Scotsman article. Seems it's a new social media word used by a few influencers. Getting out and about would not seem to be the answer, perhaps just glueing oneself to X etc is the way forwards. Agree that researching articles you link to is important.
Keep up the good work.

[Doodoo]

mise en scène

noun
the arrangement of the scenery, props, etc. on the stage of a theatrical production or on the set of a film.

[Doodoo]

Byzantine
adjective

What It Means

Something described as byzantine (or Byzantine) is very complicated, secret, and hard to understand. In its most literal (and always capitalized) sense, Byzantine describes that which is "of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium."

// The company's byzantine accounting practices have gotten it into trouble with the government.

// Works of Byzantine art filled the gallery's walls.

[Doodoo]

Skirl
means "to play the bagpipes" when the subject of the sentence is a person, as in "the piper skirled." When bagpipes are the subject (as in "the bagpipes skirled"), skirl means "to emit the high shrill tone of the chanter," with chanter referring to the reed pipe on which the bagpipe's melody is played.

// The attention of the parade-goers was fully captured the instant the bagpipers began skirling.

[AlexO]

Not 100% correct but close enough not to fall out.

[Doodoo]

Now thats a cheap shot, sounds Republican in fact.
If its not 100% give us your take on it. Might be correct and learning for us all (sorry not all)

[AlexO]

Chanter is what a piper learns the fingering of being a piper on, not attached to the air bag and pipes. almost like a wee flute. As I said not worth being called out as a Republican or any other stupid insult for.
Keep up the good work.

[tamada]

Chanter is what a piper learns the fingering of being a piper on, not attached to the air bag and pipes. almost like a wee flute. As I said not worth being called out as a Republican or any other stupid insult for.
Keep up the good work.

As someone who can actually play the bagpipes, I can safely say that while you are quite right, you are also quite wrong. (See 8. below)

[Drunk Monkey]

Whilst in hard deep thought about the very Pretty Patel on another thread got me mulling the word MILF

MILF is most commonly used as an acronym that stands for "Mother I'd Like to F**k ".

In connection with that meaning, it may also refer to any of the following:

MILF (2010 film), an American sex comedy film by The Asylum
MILF (2018 film), a French comedy film directed by Axelle Laffont
MILF pornography, a pornographic genre
"M.I.L.F. $", a 2016 song by Fergie
"Metal MILF", a 2017 song by Massacration

*** MILF may also refer to:

Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a militant Islamist group operating in the southern Philippines

Thats anew one on me .

[AlexO]

Quite right and quite wrong . Jeez a Pratty
like statement. Never heard the the Pints and Drams ever calling the Chanter a musical instrument. Maybe we are big boys and not wanting to be argumentative idiots, there again?

[Doodoo]

incandescent
adjective | in-kun-DESS-unt

What It Means

Incandescent has literal and figurative meanings. Its literal meanings relate to heat and light; it describes something that is white or glowing because of great heat, and also something (like a light bulb) that produces bright light when heated. In figurative use, incandescent relates to several kinds of brilliance. Something or someone described as incandescent can be very impressive, successful, or intelligent, or simply happy and lively. In British English, incandescent can also describe someone or something feeling or showing great anger.

// The invention of the incandescent bulb in the 19th century ushered in the age of electric lighting.

// However much we were inclined to dislike her, it was hard not to be charmed by her incandescent smile and wit.

[tamada]

Scots slang lessons.

Crabbit. A bitter, angry and recalcitrant person.

Auld. Old or elderly.

Tube. A startlingly dumb person.

Oh, wait...

[Doodoo]

cronyism

noun | KROH-nee-iz-um

What It Means

Cronyism is the unfair practice by a powerful person (such as a politician) of giving jobs and other favors to friends without regard for their qualifications.

// City residents are pushing back against cronyism and corruption in their local government.

[Doodoo]

ensconce

verb | in-SKAHNSS

What It Means

Someone or something ensconced is firmly placed or hidden. Ensconce can be a synonym of shelter and conceal, or of establish and settle.

// The sculpture is safely ensconced behind glass.

// He ensconced himself in the library's back room for the afternoon.