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wabbit
(wah·bit) Dialect, chiefly Scot ~adj.
1. exhausted, out of breath, unable to function due to extreme tiredness (as in “Playin’ wi’ thae weans has gote me wabbit“). [similar to puggled]
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6 responses to “Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Wabbit”
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After climbing up Kaimes Road and crossing over to descend via Clermiston I felt fair wabbit ,a mix of feeling faint, even ill and due to asthma and old age and forgetting to take my inhaler.
Another day I decided to set in line most of the thirty 3×2 concrete slabs laid originally to park my car off road following which I was fair puggled but far from ill.
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Can you tell me the correct spelling of the phrase, fair ferfauchen, my granny always said this when she was really tired and struggling. Thank you
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You mean it’s not what Elmer Fudd calls Bugs Bunny?
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As in today’s cryptic crossword in the i 🙂
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Why “slang” word of the day? It is just a Scottish word typical of many we were forbidden to use at school in a vain attempt to stamp out our heritage.
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Would agree with the first commenter. In our family (from Kintyre) “wabbit” always had connotations of being out of sorts – a tiredness that came from being unwell rather than simply tired from physical exhaustion.
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