Enough is enough for kilt-wearing male bar staff at a popular Scottish pub, who say touchy drunk female patrons have forced them to put on pants.

According to the Inverness Courier newspaper, the bar staff at the Hootananny in the northeast Scottish city have had enough of women lifting their kilts to see if they are "true Scotsmen."

"You get large groups of drinking women circling around when you are collecting glasses and asking whether you are a true Scotsman — and they find out for themselves," Iain Howie, the pub's assistant manager, told the paper.

"The first few times it is funny. But when it is really busy and everyone has to work fast and hard, and your hands are full of glasses, you feel quite vulnerable."

Kit Fraser, who owns the pub, told the Courier he regrets it's come to this, but is completely on side with his staff.

"Can you imagine if I went into a restaurant and stuck my hand up a girl's skirt? I would be taken to the police station and rightly so."