Gore tex test day.
28th February 2015
We don’t get a lot of wet days over here but today was one. Good for our Gore-Tex testing though! Some snow at higher levels but otherwise wet. Looks like we’ll get a mix of snow and rain tonight but a cooler day tomorrow.
The SAIS are part of the Gore-Tex test team, worked well today.
Unimpressed with the ‘minging’ weather, give them heavy snow any day.
TOP DEFINITION- ‘minging’
Certainly common in eastern Scotland, where the final g isn’t pronounced (minginn) (and probably n.e. England) since at least the 1950’s. Something unsavoury, or long past its best.
Only in the past 5 years has the rest of the UK cottoned on to this wonderful word
I didn’t change my underpants for a week, and they are now minging
by peter mckellican June 16, 2006
minging
ËmɪÅɪÅ/
adjectiveBRITISHinformal
foul-smelling.
very bad or unpleasant.
“the weather was minging”
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Calum Munro
3rd March 2015 12:15 pm
What brilliant service you provide! Avalanche forecasts, great pictures of avalanche poodles and now erudite explanations of language and its usage.
Thank you for the work – joking apart it is really appreciated.
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scairngormsadmin
3rd March 2015 4:54 pm
Thanks Calum. Glad your finding it useful. You’ve got a great surname for a Mountaineer! Any relation to the big man?
Ruaridh McIntyre
7th March 2015 3:11 am
I wouldn’t say that minging is an East Coast word. I can remember using it as a child growing up in Glasgow.
Great service you are providing – many thanks!
scairngormsadmin
7th March 2015 4:03 pm
Thanks Ruaridh. I had no idea it is an East coast word.However it says so on the inter web so must be true!?