The Ukip leader Nigel Farage was met with cries of "Nigel, you're a bawbag, Nigel you're a bawbag, na, na, na, hey!" in Edinburgh three years ago.
Perhaps it was #HurricaneBawbag that clinched it, or perhaps it was the welcome given to Donald Trump when he visited Scotland in June, but the Scottish word "bawbag" has finally been given the recognition it deserves after being added to Macmillan's Open Dictionary.
It was also one of the many insults levelled at the US Republican party's presidential candidate when he arrived in Scotland earlier this summer – the Daily Record reporting that anti-Trump protestors held up signs reading "Trump is a bawbag".
In both languages, these joyless shysters are adept at extortion, but if faced with an unknown language, like Hungarian, or rapid lowland Scots ("Ah'm scunnered wae this pish, ya bawbag") they sometimes decide we're more hassle than we're worth.
Dae ye? Are ye an actual, factual full-on Nigel, a roasting big Donald bawbag?
And also to avoid situations like Hurricane Bawbag.
What was the Hurricane Bawbag situation?
Bawbag, which was submitted for the dictionary by the user tooz last month, was one of several new entries to the open dictionary, along with the "informal verb" to pother, defined as "to make an unnecessary fuss", and the expression "curiouser and curiouser".
Not as chosen, cool or interactive as coming up with something like Hurricane Bawbag, though.
