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ba or baw (baw) A ba is a ball.

babby A babby is a slightly old-fashioned word for a baby.

bachle (baCH-l) A variant of bauchle.

back court or back green The back court of a tenement building is the shared paved or grassy area behind it.

backie 1 In Dundee, Aberdeen, and elsewhere in the Northeast, a backie is the back court of a block of flats: All the young guys played football, on the backies and on the green. 2 A backie is also one of the many local terms for a piggy-back, which is also known as a carry-code, a coalie backie, or a cuddyback in different parts of Scotland.

back of The back of an hour is the time just after it, up until about twenty past: I’ll meet you at the back of eight.

baffie (baf-fi) Baffies are slippers.

baggie or baggie minnie A baggie is a minnow, especially a large one.

bagpipes The bagpipes, often called the pipes for short, are a musical instrument consisting of a set of pipes through which air is blown from a bag held under the player’s arm. An individual instrument is known as a set of bagpipes. The type most commonly seen in Scotland, the Highland bagpipes, has one pipe with holes in it, known as a chanter, which is used to play the melody, and three pipes tuned to a fixed note, which are known as drones. The bag is filled by the player blowing into it. There also exists a smaller instrument, the Lowland bagpipes, which is sweeter toned and has the bag filled by a bellows which the player squeezes between his or her arm and side. The small Irish uillean pipes are also encountered, mainly among folk musicians.