This category contains Scots pejoratives

i'm wavering between deej and ned.

also missing: dobber

I bet if you did an ILX search on most of these it would lead you to a Scottish football thread.

What's the difference between a ned and a dobber?

a dobber's a bit like a dick.

ned is obv a pejorative but it doesn't really work as an insult, too generalised, never mind the class connotations. if it's successful here i'll be v disappointed. what makes terms such as bawbag and numpty work is that they are very nuanced.

Wiki implied that dobber was related to English chav, which I, perhaps lazily, thought was related to ned.

hm ya, chav and ned overlap a lot, but i've not heard dobber used in that way.

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i'm wavering between deej and ned.

― Aimless, Monday, June 18, 2012 7:43 AM Bookmark

srsly!

Noun
deej (uncountable)
(pejorative, slang) A child with special needs; by extension, a person of low intelligence or having the appearance of a person with special needs.
(pejorative) Someone who is deemed to be a failure by their peers.
(pejorative) Used in similar manner to the Scots word glaikit.

k so what are u voting for crut & rev?

bawbag

radgie sounds good tho

Biff

Ha! I had no idea that "numptie" was a real word. I thought that was some weird thing only my grannies used. Like "sat on your own like a numptie."

If they could agree on the spelling of "sassenach" I'd go with that, as that was another classic granny put-down.

Some more:

Stumer <---------- a partiuclar favourite of my dad's

Diddy

Haddie

... but don't get me started, there's hunners o' these

Jessie

Stumer <---------- a partiuclar favourite of my dad's

my dad too

Nippy Sweetie <-------- a shrewish woman

heid-the-ba'

^ this is a good one

Nyaf

I'd spell it 'nyaff' and of course there is no such thing as a Big Nyaff, it's always a Wee Nyaff... I'm not even sure there's such a thing a plain Nyaff!

Tumshie

I'll have to check my old Boaby Gillespie posts for more

Bauchle

im trying to think of every insult Maw Broon calls Paw Broon

ya diddie <--- my dad's favourite

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Bisom <------- female only

Article <----- sort of like "so and so"

ooh article is the best. I had a roommate from Ireland & she used it a lot ("ya bleedin article")

is it not Besom?
my gran used to say that a lot

"patrick bampot"
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Talking of Scots words, I was trying to describe an infestation of insects earlier this evening and found myself using the word "hoaching", as in a description of a bar or a nightclub with a preponderance of attractive women, "This place is hoachin' wi' fanny".

Doesn't "hoaching" just mean busy or packed with people?

There's so many of these words I've heard for all my life but never seen written or typed. I would have spelled it "Bizzum" rather than "Bisom" or "Besom".

Honestly don't think I've ever heard sasunnach, sassenagh, Sassenach, sassanoch or sasennach.

I used to hear "bam" used for "ned" a lot in school.

How about "gash patch"?

This isn't an insult but for describing small things I've never known the spelling for this word: "totie", "toatie", "toetie", "totey" or something else?

And is it "Okester" or "Oakster" for armpit?

Oxter

Personally i would spell it 'toty', I've lived in England for 14 years now and am still constantly policing myself not to use words like 'toty' in mixed (Scots/ non-Scots) company. Using 'wee' for 'small' is rare enough down here.

I know Burnistoun was very hit and miss, but as an ex-pat of 21 years I love hearing things like this, it's some sort of demented poetry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvvRFv5NYU

Noun
deej (uncountable)
(pejorative, slang) A child with special needs; by extension, a person of low intelligence or having the appearance of a person with special needs.
(pejorative) Someone who is deemed to be a failure by their peers.
(pejorative) Used in similar manner to the Scots word glaikit.

I have never heard this word. Is it some teuchter pish?

As your teuchter correspondent, I can report that I have never heard this either.

I have never heard this word. Is it some teuchter pish?

Embra keech I'll warrant.

never in ma puff

Same here, means heehaw tae me.

http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=deej&oldid=565208

original Wiktionary entry says it's from Tayside

Our playground used 'biff' for that particular insult.

we had 'spoon' and 'spazzy'

There's the thread where someone mentions "Benny" being used too (as in Benny from "Crossroads"), either Mark G or Noodle V.

Various derivatives of Joey Deacon round our bit :-(

How about "boabie" or "bobie".

I think "walloper" is my favourite from this thread. I quite like "rocket" too.

Doesn't "dobber" come from Australia?

I reckon that's a false cognate- doesn't it mean someone who grasses in australia?

Probably, because once one of my friends kept talking about how a character in Neighbors called her husband "dobber".

"haw toadfish, ya choob"

look at aw these fake fuckin', they've probably tasted a vegetable

fake fuckin' Scots

Whenever I see the latest brexit thread I think "ne'er cast a cloot till May is oot", which is the only way I've ever encountered that phrase, and that makes me think of this phrase, said of someone who's overfond of drink: "she could drink it through a shitey cloot"

ay cunts what about ye and this rock

aye keep talking deems ye pure roaster

Aye, like Rockall is part of Donegal, get tae France, ya wide-o.

I met a colleague's wife outside the office today and she said "I'm waiting for bawjaws" in reference to her own husband.

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/music/4201608/the-wolfe-tones-rockall-irish-vessels/

lol @ onimo's post