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

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.

CADDIS: Accumulated dust and fluff.

"It's that lang since I had a bath, my belly-button maun be full o caddis." (It is so long since that I bathed that my navel must be full of fluff.)

If you have ever wondered where belly-button fluff comes from, the answer is here.

Before anyone asks, the caddis in the blip came from our Dyson!

Best savoured zoomified.