THE word bawbag has been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Editors included the Scottish slang for the scrotum along with more than 40 other words from north of the border.
The OED calls bawbag a “disparaging” way to describe “an ignorant, obnoxious, or otherwise detestable person, especially a man”.
Other Scots words for idiot to be added include bam, bampot, bamstick, roaster and tube.
Senior editor Fiona McPherson, 47, of Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, helped get bawbag into the dictionary. She said: “My parents would be so proud.”
Jane Johnson, also a senior editor, said: “There is no shortage of Scottish words available to choose from if you want to label someone an idiot, and the March release includes a wide variety of such insults.
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“Be warned though — injudicious use of these terms may result in a warning to shut your geggie — another new addition.”
Other Scots words making their OED debut include bowf (stink), bidie-in (a live-in lover), hee-haw (nothing), rooked (penniless) and eeksie-peeksie (well balanced).
Weegie — a derogatory term for a Glaswegian first recorded in Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel Trainspotting — is also included.
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