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BURNIGULLY, n. An idiot, a person who is not very bright.Abd. 1990 Stanley Robertson Fish-Hooses (1992) 14:
Onywye, it wis jist a lot of skitter I telt the hantel, so they were pure burniegullies tae believe it in the first place.Abd. 1994 Stanley Robertson in James Robertson A Tongue in Yer Heid 23:
He ran off and left her on her tod in the middle o the wid wi only her ain thoughts. She wis taen for a burnigully and it wis jist een o these bad hands that life deals ye sometimes.