kailyard

Etymology

From kail + yard.

kailyard means A kitchen garden. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

A kitchen garden.“There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.”
A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister