| 20 answers for: Scots or dialect word for blows, gusts, mild explo... |
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| POUFFE | Scots or dialect word for blows, gusts, mild explosions, wafts or whiffs of air, dust, gunpowder, smoke or the like; shots; or, hairdressers' powder pads (6) |
| WHIFF | Word for a slight gust or puff; a waft or wave of odour; an inhalation of tobacco smoke; a small cigar; a flag hoisted as a signal; a narrow outrigger; an expulsion of shot; or, a jiffy (5) |
| RUNCH | Scots or dialect name for wild radish or charlock that can also mean a grinding or gnashing of the teeth (5) |
| RAFT | Word for a ship's smooth convoy through water first, now a gentle drift of air or whiff of scent (4) |
| JOLTS | Word for blows, jars or nudges; sudden jerks from seats; emotional shocks; or, unpleasant surprises (5) |
| AEROSOL | Name for tiny liquid or solid particles uniformly distributed in a finely divided state through a gas, usually air. Dust is an example of this. (7) |
| POPS | Mild explosions |
| REVERSES | Reserves play for blows (8) |
| THAI | ____ boxing, traditional martial art allowing knees and elbows for blows (4) |
| SHAW | An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| EATAGE | An old or dialect word for grazing rights or pasturage; or, aftermath, fodder, grass, hay, provender and the like, for browsing cattle or horses (6) |
| BUSS | An archaic or dialect word for a passionate kiss or loud playful smacker; or, a bluff-bowed Dutch boat for herring or mackerel fishing (4) |
| HAGS | Bird-cherries; Scots or northern dialect for hacks or hews; firm spots in bogs; soft places in moors; overhangs of peat; otherwise, a word for aged crones, foul furies, unsightly beldams or other such |
| WICK | Old or dialect word for a creek, farm, hamlet or village; or, a cord that supplies fuel to a candle or oil lamp's flame by capillary action (4) |
| KNOP | An archaic or dialect word for a hill-crest, hillock or protuberance (4) |
| DRAGS | Word for hauls, lugs or tugs; brakes; harrows; private stagecoaches; cars; puffs on "whiffs" or "tailor-mades"; or, boring or tiresome people or things (5) |
| COOKIE | From Dutch for "cake", an American word for what the English, Irish, Scots or Welsh call an Aberffraw, Bourbon, custard cream, ginger nut, Hobnob, Jammie Dodger, plain/cream bun or a shortbread, for e |
| ATTERCOP | Obsolete or dialect word for spider or ill-natured person (8) |
| YON | Old-fashioned or dialect word for that or those (3) |
| SCROG | Scots or Northern English dialect for a broken branch, bushy place, crab-apple, crooked bush, low tree, scrubby wood, stump or other shrivelled, stunted or withered thing (5) |
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