Is Stramash in the Dictionary?

noun Scot. an uproar; disturbance.

How do you use Stramash in a sentence?

'I heard the racket coming down the road. I thought for a moment there was a stramash, but I can see from the both of ye, you're here to be married. '

Is Fankle a Scottish word?

Fankle is a relatively young word in the history of Scots, first appearing in print in the poetry of Allan Ramsay in the eighteenth century. ... The verb fankle is related to the now less common word fank (to twist, tangle; to snare, catch in a noose).

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