Sitooterie (noun) (Scots)
sit-oot-ur-ee
A small building or area where people can sit outside; a summer house, conservatory, or gazebo.
1920s (in the sense ‘secluded area within a building’): from sit + oot, Scottish variant of out, + -erie, variant of -ery.
Example sentences
“We’re using the sitooterie a lot during the quarantine”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
