Wiktionary
alt. (context Scotland slang pejorative English) idiot; an objectionable and foolish person. n. (context Scotland slang pejorative English) idiot; an objectionable and foolish person.
Usage examples of "bampot".
The knuckle-dragging bampot was hardly the scholarly type, but had evidently been a keen student of local history, and of that subject's incorrigible tendency to repeat itself.
Sociopath, psychopath, whatever you like, Matt had always preferred bampot.
There had to be something deeper, to do with tides, ley-lines and lunar cycles, that explained why every large Post Office functioned as an urban bampot magnet, to which the deranged couldn't help but gravitate.
Yer no bampot, and I'm thinkin' we may make a wee douce Highland lass out o' ye yet.
Which was basically the same job on an interstellar scale, with the benefit that governments usually tended to be more rational about the disposition of their strategic interstellar deterrents than bampot street performers with a grudge against society and a home brew nuke.
It's a big galaxy, but not that big when you get, what was Rosa's term, bampots like these running amok.
Thousands of Scots who barely knew the first thing about these 'traditions' (as they were euphemistically known) would be surprised and appalled to discover the complex prescription of stances and opinions they were firmly believed to hold by these bampots, according to which side of the fence they were thought to lie.
He tried to reassure Steff that Madeleine Witherson was under no greater direct threat from the Southland Militia than any other individual, as these bampots probably had bigger fish to fry.
What it did achieve, though, was to make him extremely resolute in dealing with religious bampots.
When he reached secondary age, he also had the subsidiary benefits of going to Parkhead every other Saturday, which seemed to place him in a context that made him easier to accept, even to the bampots.