Oor Wullie: Jings! Crivvens! Help Ma Boab!

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Axel Koehler, ‘Patricians, Politics and Porridge Olympics – the Scottish Highland Games and the Swiss Unspunnen Festival and the Idea of the Noble Savage’ (p. 33), in International Journal of Ethnosport and Traditional Games, (1)(2019), 32–59.

hen - term of endearment for a woman, equivalent to "love" or "darling" ( How ye daein' the day, hen?)Suzann gave me a job to do. We knew it was going to be a tough day but important to get blue on the board early," said the Irishwoman. Between 2016 and 2017, artist Diego Jourdan Pereira filled in for Peter Davidson on Wullie, The Broons and Wee Harry. Jourdan Pereira also provided illustrations for the 2017 Annual and official merchandising. [5] Characters and story [ edit ] An Oor Wullie costume as part of The Big Walk [6] Tadger - Scottish name for a penis or can be used as a name for someone who behaves in an annoying manner ( Get oot ma face ya tadger.)

jingo, 2. By jingo!’, Oxford English Dictionaryhttps://www.oed.com/view/Entry/101343?redirectedFrom=by+jingo#eid40393170 (Consulted 19 October 2020). jake(y) - a person who is addicted to class A drugs or alcohol, and lives a poor quality of life as consequence / A down-and-out, a tramp. Jings! That wis a narrow escape!” 13 The exclamation slips out of Wullie’s mouth quite frequently. Needless to say, Wullie has sometimes been criticised for using the swear word jings. In a story from 1948, 14 Wullie’s mother scolds her son rather harshly, saying: “I’m fed up hearin’ you say ‘jings’ and ‘crivvens’ – jings, it’s awfy language – how can ye no try tae stop it?”

Theatre: Jings, crivvens and help ma boab – Oor Wullie hits the stage

Bjørnson, I. H., Michty me, whit are ye gassin’ aboot? The use of Scots in the newspaper comic strips The Broons and Oor Wullie. Master Thesis. English Department, University of Bergen, 2009.

The first Oor Wullie comic strip was published in the Sunday Post on March 8, 1936. Since then, these comics have been printed every weekend as part of the Sunday Post’s Fun Section and again at the end of the year in annuals. From 1940 to 2015, these were published every other year, alternating with The Broons, a comic strip about a Scottish family, and in Special Collections that come out every few years. Fortunately, as its consistently large readership would put it, since 2015 the annuals have been published every year. help, v. 2. Phr.: help ma bob’, Scottish National Dictionary, Dictionary of the Scots Language https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/help (Consulted 19 October 2020). T1 - 'Jings', 'Crivens' and 'Help Ma Boab'! A discussion regarding the impact of public art trails on local communities in the UK

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This is a glossary of Scots, Scots English dialect and jargon with their meanings and, where appropriate, an example of their use. It's worth noting that Scotland has 3 languages (English/Scots/ Scottish Gaelic) and a collection of different dialects. She then claimed four holes either side of a Zhang triumph as she wrapped up a 4&3 victory that put Europe 9-8 ahead - the first time they had led in the match. gem - game/up for (Pronounced by properly enunciating the G ((Hard G)), unlike the term Gem meaning jewel) A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the strip.

According to the Scottish National Dictionary, jings is a ‘mild expletive’. 15 Its English equivalent would be ( by) jingo. 16 Furthermore, the Oxford English Dictionary explains high jingo! as ‘a piece of conjuror’s gibberish’. 17 Very similar to Oor Wullie’s use of the expression, the Oxford English Dictionary records that by jingorelates to the French par Dieu, meaning “by God”. 18 The occurrence of the word in the expression high jingo can be proven as early as the late seventeenth century (1670, to be precise). 19 Jings, Crivvens, Help ma boab!”– An exclamation of surprise,bewonderment and a cry for help all rolled into 1. gads - exclamation of disgust. Used in the South West (predominantly Ayrshire and North of Aberdeen.)The foundations were being laid though by Leona Maguire, who came through a titanic tussle on the front nine with 20-year-old Rose Zhang before accelerating clear. Zhang won three of the first seven holes, but Maguire won the other four to go one clear. jing, n.2’, Oxford English Dictionary https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/101330?redirectedFrom=by+jing#eid40391321 (Consulted 19 October 2020).