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Winching *is* snogging, but it also means that you're involved in a snogging relationship with someone iykwim. I think winching as snogging has been replaced by the awful "pulling".

My mate's granny always called him a "big algae" - I think it started as a reference him growing too quickly but ended up as a general insult.

My Nan used to refer to amusing people as "a card" or "a star turn".

I always thought "cloot" was a word for "coat" ("ne'er cast a cloot 'til May's oot").

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

knock - clock

... this one used to really confuse me. "Knock" pronounced to rhyme with "cloak" of course.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

My gran used to always say the 'dish cloot'.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I thought a clout was a vest. May does not refer to the month, but to the flower of the hawthorn, so don't take your vest off until the hedges are white with blossom, OK?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

These are both from my dad rather then my granny:

puddock - a toad
speug - a sparrow

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

vest = simmit

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

a cloot is a cloth, and by extension a vest. a clootie dumpling, however, should not be cooked in a vest. although, hmm, interesting flavour ...

x-post: god, yes, i've not heard that in years.

i should have a much better collection of this stuff because my dad's from the frozen north-east of scotland, and my mum's from the frozen north-east of scotland BY WAY OF BRADFORD. which is kinda fucked-up in terms of accent/dialect/regional lexicon.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

My other granny used to say "away and puckle yer wuckle". I've no idea what it meant but I think it might be a bit rude.

clipe: tell-tale, school supergrass type

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

i've just remembered my dad using stroopie as a synonym for a small and flaccid cock.

(we've had some fascinating discussions over the years, me and my dad.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Clipe's a good one.

stank - a drain or drain cover

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, isn't a clootie dumpling cooked in a cloth?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

carnaptious - snappy and irritable

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

What's the scottish word for a woodlouse?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

A slater

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, isn't a clootie dumpling cooked in a cloth?

yes. my old granny kept a special cloth for this very purpose.

a good clootie dumpling is a thing of joy.

mrs fiendish, who hails from arran, calls spring onions sibies. or maybe sybies. or some other spelling that i'm just not getting.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Sybies, yes. It's actually spelled syboes tho... I think.

puggled - knackered, bushed, tired

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Spring onions are scallions. That's all there is to it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

mollocate - to batter, to beat up

... not sure of the spelling of that one

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

The snib = the catch on door

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

yes, teh scottishes own this thread. i thought slater was silverfish though? but then the scot who told me that was half-american.

lots of these are universal, i think, like lobby, jiffy etc. isn't a hall something you only get on the ground floor, then the landing is what you get on the other floors?

I'm not quite sure how to spell this phonetically, but my grandmother used to call the cupboard under the stairs the "kutch" (
to rhyme with 'butch')

-- C J (CJ_The_Unrul...), November 28th, 2005 1:24 PM. (later)

i wonder if that's a variation on "hutch." (xxpost)

-- athol fugard (theundergroundhom...), November 28th, 2005 1:28 PM. (later)

iirc this is a welsh thing... i can't figure out how to spell it (cwtsi? doesn't look right!) ("si" makes a "sh" or "zh" sound) but as well as cupboard-under-stairs - or any little hidey-hole really - it means a quick cuddle, a little hug. i only remember because someone told me about people being beaten at school for using the word when the english were trying to suppress the welsh (haha, "were").

A piece of jam - a jam sandwich.

-- Anna (Fieldingann...), November 28th, 2005 2:32 PM. (later)

haha anna this is BRILLIANT! i am going to use it all the time.

My grandmother always said, "Be oblong and have your knees removed."

-- Paunchy Stratego (fluxion2...), November 29th, 2005 4:09 AM. (later)

wtf does this mean? it sounds great.

Once, when my brother forgot his Maths book, the Christian Brother who taught him said "oh, it's at home is it? You might as well put it in a glass case and throw sugar at it".

-- accentmonkey (tris...), November 29th, 2005 8:16 AM. (later)

this one is awesome too.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

The most confusing Scots phrase, for us English, is probably "get the messages"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, sybies and snib, I use both instead of their alternatives.

Moroculous (sp?) - steaming drunk

Ginger - fizzy juice (pop?)

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

"I'm away oot tae get the messages but I'll be back directly." (xpost)

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Moroculous (sp?) - steaming drunk

I always imagined this is just "miraculous" as in "It's miraculous that he's still standing"

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Do we still rift or are we all burping these days?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Is moroculous more drunk than stocious?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd be black affronted to rift in public (xpost)

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

The most confusing Scots phrase, for us English, is probably "get the messages"

We say this too. You don't run errands here, you go out for a message. And groceries are messages.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Can you be black affronted when you're awfy peely wally lookin'?
(xpost)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Tee hee, we've fair got the patter.

Is 'beastie' universal for insect?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh you can be black as the earl o' hell's waistcoat.

Peely Wally = probably my favourite Scots phrase ever

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

What about 'skittered'?

"Ya dirty bissum ye've skittered yer breeks"

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

... no my absolute favourite is:

Oos - fluff

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought a woodlouse was something like a stobie or a stogie.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

The snib = the catch on door

it's never occurred to me that this is anything other than the queen's proper english.

I always imagined this is just "miraculous" as in "It's miraculous that he's still standing"

er, yes. me too. and my pocket scots dictionary agrees.

getting "messages" and also a "carry-oot" caused me no end of grief when i came to scotland; the former i just didn't understand, and the latter i assumed involved food, not liquid.

mädchen: my scots dictionary doesn't have stobies or stogies. you don't make stovies from slaters, do you? :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Oos is lovely.

Baffies anyone?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Ah've been awroonihooses lookin fur ma baffies.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

When my grannie found it cold she used to say "I'm like a frozen snotter" or "The snotters are tripping me"

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

If an animal had fleas - "That dug's lowpin' wi' beasties"

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

If I may just breenge in here, I think dreich is one of the most perfect words ever 'cos it sounds exactly like what it means

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

His face was trippin' him

Oh, I love that one too

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Is "receipt" for "recipe" in use anywhere but here? It's not common here, but it pops up now and then.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

roffles at mollocate & stonner!

baldie a haircut "thats some baldie you've got by the way"
juke the inside of your coat/jacket etc. "quick stick it up yer juke!"
shatter someone who has no guts i.e. they shit themselves at the smallest sign of danger
burr dingy i don't believe you

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

uh although my granny would never have said any of those - these are more sort of 70s playground things

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I think I'll shut my geggy now and let some non-Scottish people contribute.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

One of the Two Fat Ladies (or both?) used to use receipts.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I was haverin' when I said I'd shut my geggy, I know I probably deserve a kick up the bahookie but I just remembered another old favourite:

chib - a weapon of indefinable nature (plus can be used as a verb too)

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Ahh the 'dingy' one, did you pull your earlobe whilst saying it?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

... where I grew up, you'd cup your hand round your ear and make as if to throw something at the person you're addressing and say, Catch a deefie

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

pals of mine from the north-east (of england) talks about something mucky being lifting. eg: "howay man jimmy nail, yor hoose is fuckin' liftin'."

they also use kets for sweets. eg: "howay man, gonna giz yer kets before ah hoof ye in the knackaz?"

(apologies to viz)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

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