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screecham

nounfood

Shetland dialect word for whisky

Colloquial Shetland word for whisky, used informally to refer to distilled spirits.

Example in use

Hae ye a wee sup o' screecham?

Pronunciation

Say it like this

/SKREE-chum/

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Origin & context

scotscurrenthumorous

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