- wet. This can be used as a verb (with the past tense wat), as a noun, or as an adjective.
According to Gabriel Setoun in The Skipper of Barncraig (1901): People who live by the seaside distinguish between a ‘saut weet’ and a ‘fresh weet’. To be soaked with rain might bring on an attack of rheumatism, but after falling into the harbour, one might let his clothes dry on him without the risk of a chill.
The Scots are a nation not given to exaggeration. Accustomed to occasional extremes of weather, they manage to keep a calm souch as this anecdote from the Aberdeen Evening Express (2 August 1958) convincingly demonstrates: There is the classic story, too, of the man clinging to the wreckage of a shed being swept down the Dee who called out to a farmer as he whirled past, “Aye, min [man], it’s a gey [rather] weetie day!”