The most recent Scots phrase to be added to the dictionary is a Glaswegian slang time period.
Writer James Kelman has helped get the Scottish rhyming slang "cream puff" into the Oxford English Dictionary, reflecting when somebody is in a huff.
Booker Prize winner James Kelman has been honoured with a point out within the newest version of the tome after being credited with popularising the time period, stories Glasgow Stay.
The dictionary's researchers discovered the earliest printed point out of the phrase in that context was within the 76-year-old Glasgow-born author's 1985 novel A Chancer.
A passage within the e-book reads: "He grinned at him and pointed at McCann. He is away within the f*****g cream puff! Think about that? At his time of life."
The official entry for "cream puff" within the dictionary reads: "Scottish colloquial (mainly Glasgow). A state of petty annoyance, esp. within the cream puff. huff."
The dictionary mentioned the phrase had additionally been used within the late Scottish writer Jeff Torrington's 1992 novel Swing Hammer Swing.
Within the e-book a personality says the road: "You continue to within the cream puff, or what?"
The dictionary additionally cited a current point out of the phrase in a Twitter put up from 2020 to point out it's nonetheless in frequent use amongst Scots.
A person from Stirlingshire posted: "Informed my buddy I wasn't operating at the moment then I made a decision to exit. She's in a cream puff with me lol."
The unique entry for "cream puff" was added to the dictionary in 1893 and reads: "A puff pastry case, usually spherical, and stuffed with cream."
Almost 700 new phrases, senses, and phrases have been added to the dictionary of their newest replace.
Final 12 months, Sir Billy Connolly has managed to get the phrase "trousered" to explain being drunk into the dictionary
A brand new that means for trousered was included within the dictionary to replicate it being a slang time period for being intoxicated.
Researchers discovered the earliest printed point out of the phrase in that context was in a 1977 newspaper interview with Glasgow-born Connolly.
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