Oh, I'll believe you, Wee M'Wotsit, except for this URL you say I have and I
don't know anything about ....
Guddle is a lovely word, I quite agree with Tina's great-grandmother.
Checked it in Chambers which is where I learned it was Scots. I've been
trying to remember where I heard it as I've known it a long time, and have
finally concluded that I heard it from an old school friend about 30 years
back, whose twin sons, then aged about 10 or 12, were catching fish that
way. But this was in Wiltshire, and the only possible Scottish connection I
can think of is that Mary's mother was a Geordie with a 'thing' about Rabbie
Burns. It's quite possible they were misusing the word somewhat, though it
was definitely a context of fishing-by-hand.
joanna
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From: "Robin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: SNAP - Bass
>> 'Guddle' -- it's Scots, means to fish with the hands by groping under
>> banks or stones. Like tickling trout.
>>
>> joanna
>
> Not exactly like tickling trout, I think, Joanna, but related -- it's
> usually the weans who guddle for minnows, at the edges of burns and that.
> So you do it for wee fishes, no big ones, with a cupped hand, rather than
> tickling them behind the gills with a finger.
>
> I think -- that's the top of my head rather than a dictionary, but you
> could check me, as you have the URL for the Dictionary of the Scottish
> Language.
>
> The Wee M'Greegor
>
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