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Can ye paint a pictur yaising wirds? Whit kind o pictur cud ye paint? Here are a puckle wirds that cud help ye describe a peacefu scene, a cauld day or a dramatic chase. Ye dinnae need tae yaise them aw an ye'll find mair in the Scots Schools Dictionary. Gin ye like tae hae words gaithert thegither like this whan ye're scrievin, visit the Wordsmiddie an mak yer ain thesaurus

A peaceful scene

• Places: gairden, glen, strath, burn, watterfa, park (field), wuid.
• Flooers: pee-the-bed, gowan, heather, sourock
• Birds: cushie doos, speugs, mavis, whitterick
• Soons: cheepin, souchin, bizzin, craikin
• Smells: the whuff o girse, flooers, sea
• Adjectives: douce, saft, bien, lown, leesome

A cauld day

• Weather: weet, dreich, smirrin rain, teemin rain, onding, chuckin it doon, hail watter, snaw, a snaw flauchter, a blin drift, a snell souch, a thin wind, wersh, gowsterous, cranreuch, rimy, fireflaucht, thunner, thunner plump, blaw, dubs.
• Fowk: dirlin fingers, jeelin taes, dreepin neb, chitterin, perishin, oorie, drookit, skite.

A dramatic chase

• Feelins: feart, frichtit, pechin, connacht, puggelt
• Movement: rin, leg, stour, skelp, chase, breenge, skelter, wheech, mak up on, owertak, jouk, jink
• Fitness: souple, swack, swippert,
• Descriptive: ramstam, heid-lang, hail-tear, heelstergowdie.