dreich

[SelkirkAlex]

in my 30 odd years living in africa dreich was just a quaint old scots word distant in my memory , never dragged out and used.

but as I sit here this morning in this scottish autumn dreich is the only word that comes to mind.
today the world is dull drab grey, that odd scottish mixture of heavy mist and low cloud. I know the sun is up now because the top bit of the grey is slightly lighter than the rest. visibilty is maybe a hundred yards, the forest I know is there is just a dark blob,
dark and damp, I almost expect the slugs to come by on their bicycles ,
dreich a simple word but so intensely descriptive, evocative.

[Thelma Sanders]

Dreich - Good word, isn't it? (for Miranda fans )

Was the same here first thing but has lifted a bit now, I don't like warm and humid, but I'm guessing you haven't got the warmth with it?

[Birdie Wife]

We've gone beyond dreich up here in the Highlands, it's now properly keich...

[SelkirkAlex]

putting on my best wee free accent "language m'dear, language"

this thread must be straining google translate further south

[veggiechicken]

You can keep those words to yourselves - whatever they mean
Its always sunshiny here so I don't need to know

[Small pumpkin]

It's stunning here today. One of the best days of the year!
I'm off back outside to make the most of it. ( no coat need either! )

[Lumpy]

Well, here its just a 'bit black over Bill's Mother'

[Snadger]

in my 30 odd years living in africa dreich was just a quaint old scots word distant in my memory , never dragged out and used.

but as I sit here this morning in this scottish autumn dreich is the only word that comes to mind.
today the world is dull drab grey, that odd scottish mixture of heavy mist and low cloud. I know the sun is up now because the top bit of the grey is slightly lighter than the rest. visibilty is maybe a hundred yards, the forest I know is there is just a dark blob,
dark and damp, I almost expect the slugs to come by on their bicycles ,
dreich a simple word but so intensely descriptive, evocative.

Sounds like summat Father Jack from the sitcom Father Ted would say!

The North East version is Kack!

[burnie]

We have the Harr too

[rary]

Dreich is such a descriptive word it conjures up exactly what you want to convey, but Birdie Wife that word takes me back a lot of years since I heard that, and of course used in the presence of a parent it led to a thick ear