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

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.

JEELY PIG: Jam jar.

"Div y' min' on collar'd jerseys,
Worn wi' a strippet tie?
'n' jeely pigs fu' o' tadpoles,
That ye'd gaither'd fae Cairncry?"

(Do you remember pullovers with collars,
Worn with a striped tie?
And jam jars full of tadpoles,
That you had collected from Cairncry?)