ambulance-chasing n.— «Gatehouse has accused the paper’s authors of conducting “a piece of ambulance-chasing research that is coming in on the coat-tails of the GM controversy.”» —“GM link of scientist who discredited...
noddie n.— «Whenever you see an taped interviewer nodding, smiling or reacting with a knowing or quizzical eyebrow, you are generally watching what are called “noddies”—reaction shots filmed after the interview takes place...
tinkie n.— «As I understand it, and I can’t claim fully to understand, they spend the Scottish winter in Australia touring their relatives in a camper van and building themselves a sort of ecological dream house near Perth in the west...
set-jet v. phr.— «Tourism officials want to cash in on the trend known as “set-jetting” where fans flock to shoot locations around the world.» —“Film promotes Da Vinci ‘set-jet’” BBC News Scotland Apr. 6...
grundulating n.— «While similar groups are content to regurgitate 30-year-old clichés, Girls Aloud’s current album invents a whole new word, “grundulating.”» —“For those about to pop” Scotsman (Glasgow...
stooshy n.— «I don’t think people are getting terribly excited about it. Where I come from in Scotland they would say there hasn’t been a great stooshy.» —“Anne’s Middle Class Move” by Paul Harris, Diana Wildman Daily...