― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
puggled - knackered, bushed, tired
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
... 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Moroculous (sp?) - steaming drunk
Ginger - fizzy juice (pop?)
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Is 'beastie' universal for insect?
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
"Ya dirty bissum ye've skittered yer breeks"
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Oos - fluff
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
it's never occurred to me that this is anything other than the queen's proper english.
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 (eighteen years ago) link
Baffies anyone?
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, I love that one too
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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 dangerburr dingy i don't believe you
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
POO
RUNNY
― GARU G-G-G (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
is a great word.
― garumly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
When translated to, say, Harald Brattbakk or some other diddy footballer in Scotland, this becomes "he couldnae hit a coo's erse wi' a banjo" which is much more evocative.
Re: Peely-wally, when they announced a concert in memory of John Peel, the Daily Record ran with the headline "Peely Rally", which had me roffling. Or pishing ma keks, if you prefer.
Ooh, just remembered another cracker - ganting which is like desperate/gasping for something "Ah wis pure ganting for a pint/shag/deep fried Mars Bar" etc.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
My dad also used to refer to the nastier variety of lucky gits as "snottery orphan"s - generally directed at sporting people who were undeniably good but very dull, therefore worthy of ridicule anyway (top recipient of this insult would have been Steve Davis). I think it showed a grudging respect rather than being an insult. I haven't heard him say it for years, so I think he may have invented it to stop himself swearing in front of his impressionable young childrem.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
stet's dad could presumably also fall in a bucket of shit and come up smelling of roses, especially in (the north-west of?) england.
where do people (scots esp) stand on the drop scone/pancake debate? my mum used to make drop scones and call them pancakes, which confused me no end (and led to severe public humiliation from a teacher one sad shrove tuesday).
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link