Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Fitba’

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fitba’
(fit·baw) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n.
1. (m) the beautiful game
2. (f) stupid game involving 22 grown men (and 3 officials of dubious parentage and eyesight) kicking a lump of leather around a field, often sparking irrational behaviour, bad language and blind devotion to a team or player, to the detriment of normal marital relations. ( see fitba’ widow)

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