WORDS such as eedjit, swallie and puggie have been granted official slots in the updated version of a Scots dictionary.
They are among 6000 new words and definitions collected for the latest volume of the Dictionary of Scots Language.
Rhyming slang such as "jamtarts"when referring to football club Hearts, and "cabbage and ribs", meaning Edinburgh rivals Hibs, have also been included.
Researchers have spent the past 30 years collecting, and scouring for, words from modern literature, newspapers and the general public.
The new supplement to the 10-volume dictionary, compiled by the Edinburgh-based Scottish Language Dictionaries organisation, is available online for the first time.
Pauline Cairns, senior editor, said: "We have managed to include so many new words and many that people don't even realise are Scots because they are used in everyday language.
"We have searched all over for words including books by the likes of authors Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh."
Iseabail Macleod, editorial consultant, added: "The main aim of the dictionary is to support the Scots language and the main way of doing that is to create a record of the language.
The most important thing about this was to bring the record up-to-date and keep Scots still very much alive and being used.
"We have tried to include any newmeanings for the word and also quotations that show that the word is still used.
"People keep saying that Scots is dying, but there is a lot of evidence to show that is not the case."
Newspapers have also been used as sources to show that the Scots language is being used on a daily basis.
The organisation is hoping anyone with an interest in the Scots language will use the resource, as well as university students, teachers and school pupils.
Judith Gillespie, of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, said: "I think it is fantastic they are combining tradition with modern technology to service a valuable cultural resource."
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