jannie
See also: Jannie
English
Scots
Noun
jannie (plural jannies)
- (slang) janitor
- 2004, Sheena Blackhall, “Letter fae a distressed heidie”, in The Wizard o the North:
- Aa throw Science he played his trannie, / Gied a Glesga kiss tae the jannie, / Pit the gerbil up May Webster's kilt, / Kennin fine she's allegric tilt.
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- 2013, Pedro Lenz, translated by Donal McLaughlin, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books, page 32:
- If the rain disnae stop soon, ah'll be stayin in here till wan ae the librarians or – fur aw ah care – the jannie [translating Abwart] chucks me oot.
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