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  • noun Scotland, slang, pejorative Idiot; an objectionable and foolish person.

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Examples

  • What kind of bampot dreams up a game that can go on five days without producing a winner?

    Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

  • What kind of bampot dreams up a game that can go on five days without producing a winner?

    Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

  • The only if was who got to him first: some religious bampot avenging the murder of a priest, or the hired hand of whoever set him up, in accordance with the second rule of assassination.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • If a bampot like Norman Baker put up then no danger to Huhne.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • The only if was who got to him first: some religious bampot avenging the murder of a priest, or the hired hand of whoever set him up, in accordance with the second rule of assassination.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005

  • All through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a gun-toting bampot.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • If the signature became common knowledge, then every bampot with a bomb could spread it around to claim second-hand kudos and cloud the picture.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • Like primate competitors for dominant-male status, each of them preferred to announce to the pack just how much of a bampot (or steamer, or zoomer) he was, perhaps to deter challengers.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Like primate competitors for dominantt-male status, each of them preferred to announce to the pack just how much of a bampot (or steamer, or zoomer) he was, perhaps to deter challengers.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • The only if was who got to him first: some religious bampot avenging the murder of a priest, or the hired hand of whoever set him up, in accordance with the second rule of assassination.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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  • perfect bampette

    February 1, 2007

  • yes

    came

    sleep

    ...

    come

    to think

    ...

    that too

    February 1, 2007

  • Fool, simpleton (Scots).

    November 27, 2007

  • Barmpot where I grew up.

    June 12, 2008