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braw
(br·aww) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj.
1. fine, pleasant, esp. weather (“It’s a braw day the day” or “It’s a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht the nicht“).
2. attractive, pretty (often in “You’re really braw, hen. Fancy a Ruby Murray?“).
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5 responses to “Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Braw”
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Ruby Murray is slang (rhyming slang for curry).
Braw is NOT slang, it is a proper Scots language word.
Scots is NOT slang.
You might want to have a look at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ and http://www.scotslanguage.com/.
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This is funny. I’m Norwegian and the word «bra» in Norwegian means «good». Same word? Probably! ?
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Almost certainly…
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A number is Scots words come from Viking/Scandinavian, such as bairn.
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“Brav” in German also means good, e.g., “ein braves Kind” (a well-behaved child).
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