fannybaws too new to be established, it's "the big man" from chewing the fat that coined that term, no?
tadgercuntragwideo
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
walloper
tumshie
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
within the baws phylum there's also bawjaws, but that's maybe another chewin the fat one?
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
shut it ya clackerbag
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
ach awa in shite.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
never heard clacker-bag!
"away and lie in your pish" is a good one as well.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
need to remind you that SSL students may require translations here
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
urban dictionary is not picking up the slack where wiktionary fails
within the baws phylum = phrases i need to use sometime this week
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
tadger - peniscuntrag - needs no translationwideo - someone who is cheeky, impudent.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:13 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
walloper - penis
tumshie - turnip
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow)
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
what about 'stoaty' and 'plook
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
an old school one here: chanty-wrassler - useless person. literally means chamberpot-wrestler. someone who at night, no doubt in a crowded tenement room shared with many kinfolk, who is maladroit with their usage of the chamberpot and causes disruptive noise(?) or spillage(?).
never heard "stoaty", "plook" means pimple, zit, spot. "plooky" means "spotty"
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
chanty-wrassler
nice
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
aye it's a good one, but archaic. my grandad used to say it, most people my parent's age would know it, but no-one my age (late 20s) would use it, and no doubt many wouldn't have heard it, and it will have completely disappeared soon enough :c
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
wank as a noun, but not to denote the act of masturbation, but rather as a pejorative term for a person.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
voted bawbag in absence of bampot
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
Whaurs Dunderheid?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
NyafGowk
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
cludgie digger
plamf - don't know what this means, just a light insult. google search suggests it means "panty sniffer", ha.
dunderheid - simpleton. a good one definitely.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
no heid-the-ba', no etc etc
love,a passing sassenach
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 18 June 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
Aw, plamf is a good one as well.
Bawjaws will forever be associated with those spoof Dolmio ads that were doing the rounds about five or six years ago.
Trumpet, rocket and zoomer also missing.
― ailsa, Monday, 18 June 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
Category:Irish Slang (no pejoratives for us) is a similarly odd selection:
C
Craic Culchie
F
Feck
G
Gombeen man
G cont.
Grinds
J
Jackeen
K
Knacker
P
P45 (tax)
P cont.
Plastic Paddy
S
Sesh
W
West Brit
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Monday, 18 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
bawbag ftw
― stet, Monday, 18 June 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
fud
― calumerio, Monday, 18 June 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
is there a notable etymology to fud?
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wiki says it's related to German Fotze.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
i'm wavering between deej and ned.
― Aimless, Monday, 18 June 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
also missing: dobber
I bet if you did an ILX search on most of these it would lead you to a Scottish football thread.
― ailsa, Monday, 18 June 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
What's the difference between a ned and a dobber?
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Wiki implied that dobber was related to English chav, which I, perhaps lazily, thought was related to ned.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 18 June 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
hm ya, chav and ned overlap a lot, but i've not heard dobber used in that way.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
― Aimless, Monday, June 18, 2012 7:43 AM Bookmark
srsly!
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Noundeej (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.
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
k so what are u voting for crut & rev?
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 June 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
bawbag
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 June 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
radgie sounds good tho
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 June 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
Biff
― MaresNest, Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
Some more:
Stumer <---------- a partiuclar favourite of my dad's
Diddy
Haddie
... but don't get me started, there's hunners o' these
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
Jessie
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
my dad too
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
Nippy Sweetie <-------- a shrewish woman
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
heid-the-ba'
^ this is a good one
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
Tumshie
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'll have to check my old Boaby Gillespie posts for more
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
Bauchle
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
that is a corker
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 December 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glbBNXAQhY
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Can't see that, Nick... oh, sorry... whit's the fuckin' sketch here, ya walloper, ah cannae see a fuckin' thing.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
how no? ya fuckin' (pause) balloon
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Bravo btw, you're learning fast (xp)
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 December 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 December 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jgRjQqA.jpg
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 19 February 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
hauners. Like handers, as in giving you a hand, I believe.
― ailsa, Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Interesting. Never would have guessed that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 May 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
I sometimes suspect that when two Scots converse they only understand the half of what each other is saying.
― Aimless, Saturday, 30 May 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 May 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
Follae the maist recynt chynges tae the wiki oan this page.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3cMbfnW8AEDtQD.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
*swells with national pride*
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 January 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Dying!
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 January 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Hailtic/status/826138133142069249
on the same theme
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 30 January 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
heh, i like that even more
is that outside buchanan galleries?
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 January 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
yup
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 30 January 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
or "aye" i should say fuck sake man been in north america too fucking long
canadians are the acceptable face of north america tho tbf
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 January 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3cOuMUWEAAQryg.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
i'm starting to think i need to visit scotland
― mh 😏, Monday, 30 January 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3b8f3nWQAIEKrN.jpg
― ailsa, Monday, 30 January 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
Don't know if anyone else noticed but, in his press conference with Theresa May, Trump said his mother was from Stornoway, "That's real Scotland." I expect Trump would consider these protestors to be not real Scots.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 30 January 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
not true scotsmen, as it were
― mh 😏, Monday, 30 January 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
look at aw these fake fuckin', they've probably tasted a vegetable
― bayland rippenkroeger, stunt artiste (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 January 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
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"
― in a soylent whey (wins), Monday, 1 May 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
ay cunts what about ye and this rock
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
aye keep talking deems ye pure roaster
― i really, really, really, really, really, really like glue (fionnland), Saturday, 8 June 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
Aye, like Rockall is part of Donegal, get tae France, ya wide-o.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 June 2019 08:18 (four years ago) link
I met a colleague's wife outside the office today and she said "I'm waiting for bawjaws" in reference to her own husband.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/music/4201608/the-wolfe-tones-rockall-irish-vessels/
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
lol @ onimo's post
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Monday, 17 June 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link