@sciencebase Bit more Glasgow, maybe, although might be confined to Hamilton at the plate mill. I think 'scoundrel' is what it means, but I ought to have enquired really. I got it, so it may well be worse.

@SteelFolk Ah, yes, I thought mebbe it was Scottish...don't think I know it as a Geordie word, although there's a bit of overlap...

...that said, there's lexical overlap but definitions aren't the same, e.g. canny