aboot-gaain
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
aboot + gaain; Calque of Old Norse umganga (“to go round”).
Pronunciation
- (Northern Isles) IPA(key): /əˈbutɡ(j)aːn/
Adjective
aboot-gaain
- (Northern Isles) going about, whirling, veering, wandering
References
- “aboot-gaain, ppl. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.