This category contains Scots pejoratives

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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"

Am I the only person who thinks it's spelled 'tube' and finds 'choob' really weird?

i've never seen 'choob' before, i had never thought of it as anything but 'tube'

I see choob a lot in other places and it baffles me that someone felt tube needed a new spelling.

I've been wondering a lot if there has been a semi-official decision on how these words are spelled. Maybe a Scottish Slang Society.

I have a very definite sense of how things should be spelled based on tradition, pronunciation, derivation and various vaguely-cohesive workings of my mind (or just them being actual words with actual spellings), then people spoil it all with choob and jaikie and other such weirdness.

I write tube like a choob

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

yep. if you dob on someone to a teacher, you'll be a dibber-dobber.

nb: the teacher is not a dibber. it's just a way of emphasising one's dobbyness. (almost all dobbing is done to teachers.)

Someone once told me that 'dobber' had a sectarian root (as in Dirty Orange Bastard). I don't remember people using it when I was a kid - I kind of feel many of these were either made up (e.g. fannybaws) or died and got a new lease of life through Chewin the Fat ("gie's a gonk ya dobber").

From one of the hundreds of BOC threads, made me laugh.

AWAY AND EAT A BOWL OF PISH!! YA BIG PISH EATING ARSE CANDLE
― bolsey boy pudding and pie, Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:26 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Talking of old threads, now seems like an especially propitious time to revive this thread, a perfect example of some of the pejoratives already mentioned in vivid action.

Let's try that again

that is a corker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glbBNXAQhY

Can't see that, Nick... oh, sorry... whit's the fuckin' sketch here, ya walloper, ah cannae see a fuckin' thing.

how no? ya fuckin' (pause) balloon

Here, don't get fuckin' wide wi' me, ya cheeky article, ah'll gie ye a skelp, so ah will. If ye must know, ah'm oan a fuckin' train gaun fae Glesga tae that London, any obs?

Bravo btw, you're learning fast (xp)

Talk of 'tims' on the Rangers Have Gone Into Administration thread has reminded of something my dad used to say about his dad, my grandad (who died when I was too young to remember him), he used to say that he worked "timming sand boats". This was always said in the context of how he (my dad that is) not only never 'ad nuthin' ever and how he felt looked down on because his father only "timmed sand boats". This was entirely incomprehensible to me as a child but, thanks to the internet, I discover that 'tim' is a Scots word (verb + adj.) for 'empty' and a sand boat is some kind of dredger.

http://i.imgur.com/jgRjQqA.jpg

Anyone remember that word that sounded like "honners"? I don't know if it was the same word as "honours" but it was the term for somebody who would back you up in a fight. We used it constantly.

hauners. Like handers, as in giving you a hand, I believe.

Interesting. Never would have guessed that.

I sometimes suspect that when two Scots converse they only understand the half of what each other is saying.

Depends what circles they are from. It's been a long time since I heard someone who had a really extreme accent with lots of slang I didn't know.