My mum still say's 'woe betide you' and 'hell skud it intae ye' as well as 'I'll take my hand off your face' (see Billy Connolly).
I've got one of those magnet sets with all old Glasgow words - but I don't know what some of them mean. I'll check when I get home tonight and you can all translate them for me...
At the moment they spell out the wondrous phrase that is "ya torn faced bowfin ginger specky bampot" (Refers to the bastard ex, I keep it as a reminder)
Stooshie, Rammie, Tumshie...anyone?
Has anyone heard Tumshie Smiley,the news reader on Virgin? It cracks me up everytime I hear her name!
Great thread Rumpie!
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I have The Complete Patter by Michael Munro - an essential read for anyone with an interest.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
bring them on!
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Some bizarre and wrong entries but some classics as well.
and then yer arse fell aff: A term used when someone is bullshitting
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't know what happened to that the first time I tried to post it.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
They sound more like Springburn schemies to me, Greenock's a bit more singy-songy-westy with added nasal.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
The Dolmio things are done by a bloke in Greenock, and also reference the old bloke going to Greenock during the war. So it's probably not Greenock. It's probably *gulp* Paisley!
To get off Scottish things for a second, do other people's parents still use "the sights you see when you don't have a gun" when seeing any goths/punks/people of questionable conformity?
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost - Queerhawk - is that a Scots thing or is it just coz my mum is the only person I know that uses it?
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Bahookie - bumBlack-affronted - embarassedMerrit - marriedSwally - alcoholGeggie - mouthBowfin - gross, mingin etcRummle - sort of stir..(now THAT reminds me of my Granny at the bingo rummle them up son, rummel them up)Oh and its' "miraculous' according to this lotPuggy - fruit machinelavvy - toilethughie -to vomitBoke - retch
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Clarty - now we used to say clatty, meaning minging or gorss, but Clarty, anyone?
Dauner?
The babes?
loosie?
ovies?
keelie?
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Boggin
Slag - as in to take the mick, not the nasty word fur a wummin
Humph
What does bauchle mean?
Stoatin
Hoachin
Corrie-fisted
skelly eyes
Hmm, what's a 'wally close'?
Right I'm going skelly eyed noo...I'm putting it away...
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
I still use the Taggart-inspired dunderheid, but mostly for comedic effect (see also "there's bin a murrrrderrrr").
I'm trying to introduce some classic "Chewing the Fat" phrases into everyday usage. Best one last series = Winston's wake-up call to his lazy grandson "haw, you, oot yer wanking chariot"
Those Dolmio ads started a craze in our office a few months ago of going "fucking yaldy" whenever anyone got a text message. I'm glad someone else was sad enough to request on that bloke's blog that he should make it commercially available for use on phones :)
(xpost - a wally close is one of the Glasgow tenements with ceramic tiling in it)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
(wally dugs = http://auction.goanm.co.uk/CatalogueFiles/TSAborder/AuctionItemImages/wally/1.jpg)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
As I posted upthread, it's a (usually scuffed) shoe
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"where's don C this week? holidays?""aye. he's spending the week at home in the chariot. with a box of kleenex and a tub of cold cream."
has anyone mentioned havering yet? i surprised myself today by accusing someone of doing it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
My dad is possibly the only living Scottish person in the world who actually uses "och aye the noo". It seems to be the verbalisation of a yawn for him, but still, he uses it.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
hmmm :)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, where I come from apparently "I'm knocked up" *used* to mean "I'm fackin exhausted". Can you imagine the hilarity ensuing, etc etc.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Puggled or peched out means knackered round these parts. Though again, I'm not sure if "pech" (which is basically a verb meaning to puff or wheeze or generally be short of breath) is a Highland thing, a Scottish thing or a my-parents thing.
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
We here in Ireland use this expression also. And we say 'grand' to mean, well, just about anything really.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Okay, clarty is clatty, daunner is like saunter - a stroll. The babes or the wee babes for some reason means something good. "Those stovies were the babes." Loosie I don't know and ovies means overalls.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
That's a walk isn't it?
'Ah'm goin a wee dauner doon the toon'
Ailsa, I think you're getting Chewin' The Fat and Still Game mixed up, though you reminded me of the Stoory Midouristoory: covered in dust
Scottish words illustrated: http://stooryduster.co.uk/index.htm
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 1 December 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Well hell mend ye for displeasing yer maw
I accused myself of doing it upthread
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Can't believe I missed ovies - how could I NOT know what ovies means?
― smee (smee), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Beamer, riddy & brass neck.
― smee (smee), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
OMG, stoory! Oor Wullie and his pals used to go their kartie down the Stoory Brae, didn't they? (also, stoory midori = comedy gold)
No-one has mentioned yer maw yet, have they? (Architecture in Helsinki's tour van to thread!)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm going to get in trouble for this, but New Zealand, I think.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tanya Frerichs, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I call 'em swimmers.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link
to confuse matters further, i'm gonna drop a pikelet into the mix. pikelet = drop scone, yes?
also my mum (from cumbria) has always called a swimming costume a "cossie", and never set foot in nz/aus or had any relatives living there etc...
― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link