Your Scottish Slang Word O' The Day: Eejit

Posted by Doug on February 10th, 2005

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eejit

(ee·jit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n.
1. idiot, simpleton, one not possessed of all their mental faculties; one who is unable to properly conduct their own affairs (as in "Yer aff yer heid, ye eejit. That's no' a real dug") [see also bawheid, dunderheid]

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