Scots Word of the Week: Hudderie
HUDDERIE LOCKDOWN has been tough for so many of us, but I hadn’t realised quite how important a haircut was for morale. Home hairdressing has, for me at least, never really “cut it” and I fear that – when I finally manage to get professional attention – I will be much more shaggy than I care to be. In other words, I am becoming exceptionally hudderie. According to the citations in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (www.dsl.ac.uk), the adjective hudderie first appears at the beginning of the 19th century, with the general meaning of slovenly or untidy. Hudderie seems to deri...
Source: heraldscotland.com