bampot

bampot
 n.— «Labour’s Scots erupted in uproar, shouting “Ye silly bampot” at Mr Greenway and the old dialect phrase: “goo boil ye heed.”» —“The Day in Politics: Border skirmish has Sassenachs out in force” by Andrew Rawnsley Guardian (U.K.) Mar.29, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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