daftie

They pulled the daftie to the wall that was built, and made him sit down on the ground at its foot.

The word 'daftie' in the islands covered a multitude of mentalities.

The daftie struggled to keep hold of his armful of implements.

Patients and Patience o3 daftie'.

Having arrived on his first day of school wearing a pair of homemade shoes and a tunic, he earned the unkind nickname of "Daftie".

For some reason one daftie thought we were part of the band so we looked at each other, grinned and ended up standing there for over an hour signing autographs too.

A heid the baw, for example, refers to an irritating, idiotic, dim-witted person - a right daftie, basically (though the term also applies to football, where a player heads the ball).

The Scottish have long been accustomed to ridicule and bafflement over their accents from their fellow Brits, who strain to decipher words like "cannae" and "daftie" (for the record: "can't" and "fool").

The jealous compere foreshadows subsequent criticisms, saying that while Susan can sing, the only reason the pub crowd reacted as they did was because they weren't expecting it, and felt they owed her an apology for thinking she was a daftie.