That's if he can find an irritatingly couthy Scots phrase to crowbar into his soundbite, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boiling a Frog]

Drumtochty hes an idea o 'itsel', and peety the man 'at tries tae drive them, but they' re couthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers] Reference

If they had met on the shores of the central lake of Africa, they could scarcely have been more couthy together.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Elginbrod] Reference

It is a long walk through the snow, but there is a kindly, couthy smell from the woods, and at sight of the squares of light in his home, weariness departs from a Drumtochty man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers] Reference

"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush] Reference

"Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns round ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's nae tae be, Tammas, it's nae tae be.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

There is something warm and hospitable -- if he knew the language well enough he would call it couthy -- in the greeting that he gets from the shepherd on the moor, and the conversation that he holds with the farmer's wife in the stone cottage, where he stops to ask for a drink of milk and a bit of oat-cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness] Reference

Tis couthy an 'warm in the cab, an' I'm willin 'to leesten to yer bluidy advaintures. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference

'Tis couthy an 'warm in the cab, an' I'm willin 'to leesten to yer bluidy advaintures. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Canty an 'couthy an' kind to the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westering Home] Reference

  With little din, but couthy what it made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

Sae gie her a couthy welcome, wumman, and the best in the hoose, for oors 'ill be the first roof she' ill be under on her way hame. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush] Reference

"As for the weemen, he fair cuist a glamour ower them; they're daein 'naethin' noo but speak aboot this body and the ither he cured, an 'hoo he aye hed a couthy word for sick fouk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush] Reference

As couthy as couthy can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

With little din, but couthy what it made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

Oh, couthy is my ingle-cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

I thought ’twould be more couthy-like with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krindlesyke] Reference

Couthie, couthy, loving, affable, cosy, comfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary] Reference

She's a fine, herty, couthy, savin kin 'o' wuman, my wife!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salted with Fire] Reference