An A to Z of the Doric: an occasional series. K

Doric, the dialect spoken in the North-East of Scotland is rich in words and phrases associated with the land and the sea. Over the next few weeks I will try to illustrate some of them in an A-Z using examples of their use taken mainly from Buchan Claik, The Saut an the Glaur o't written in 1989 by Peter Buchan and David Toulmin.

KNAPDAERLICK: A solid lump or chunk, especially a knot of hardened dirt and dung, or matted hair, hanging from the coat or tail of an animal.

"It's nae a stone ava but a knapdaerlick that hung at ane o' my stots' tails a' the last summer." (It isn't a stone at all but a knapdaerlick that hung on the tail of one of my full-grown castrated bullocks all last summer.)

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