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Glaswegian and Scottish Dictionary :
Words and Translations into English.
Glaswegian or Scottish Word:
Tattie bogle
English Meaning :
Scarecrow
A device, traditionally a human figure dressed in auld claes, or mannequin, that is used tae discourage birds sic as craws frae disturbin craps. No anerly dae craws eat the recently cast seed, but they gaither nichtly an aw, stairtin wi groups o a hauf dizzen that then jyn thegither tae form a group o 20 tae 30 an so on till the flock is raither lairge an noisy. It is thair prattick tae return tae the ae place ilka nicht. Example
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