bism
English
Noun
bism (plural bisms)
- (chiefly Scotland) A devilish person.
- 2011, Prism International, page 39:
- Cheek back (verb): defensive strategy of a bism who has been reprimanded for errant behaviour.
- 2014, Andrew Glascoe, Nobody Knew She Was There, →ISBN, page 25:
- Just that you were a 'pair o' wee bisms.'
- 2018, Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue, →ISBN, page 44:
- That shut the old bism up good and proper.
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Anagrams
- BMIs, IBMs, MIBs, MISB, bims, mibs