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?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 November 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
And is it "Okester" or "Oakster" for armpit?
Oxter
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 November 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 November 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Sunday, 30 November 2014 09:54 (nine 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.
I have never heard this word. Is it some teuchter pish?
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
As your teuchter correspondent, I can report that I have never heard this either.
― ailsa, Monday, 1 December 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
Embra keech I'll warrant.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
never in ma puff
― sktsh, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Same here, means heehaw tae me.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=deej&oldid=565208
original Wiktionary entry says it's from Tayside
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Our playground used 'biff' for that particular insult.
― MaresNest, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
we had 'spoon' and 'spazzy'
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
There's the thread where someone mentions "Benny" being used too (as in Benny from "Crossroads"), either Mark G or Noodle V.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Various derivatives of Joey Deacon round our bit :-(
― ailsa, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
I reckon that's a false cognate- doesn't it mean someone who grasses in australia?
― sktsh, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Probably, because once one of my friends kept talking about how a character in Neighbors called her husband "dobber".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
"haw toadfish, ya choob"
― sktsh, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
Am I the only person who thinks it's spelled 'tube' and finds 'choob' really weird?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
i've never seen 'choob' before, i had never thought of it as anything but 'tube'
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
I see choob a lot in other places and it baffles me that someone felt tube needed a new spelling.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 01:38 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 08:22 (nine years ago) link
I write tube like a choob
― sktsh, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:39 (nine years ago) link
yep. if you dob on someone to a teacher, you'll be a dibber-dobber.
― the incredible string gland (sic), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
nb: the teacher is not a dibber. it's just a way of emphasising one's dobbyness. (almost all dobbing is done to teachers.)
― the incredible string gland (sic), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
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").
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 December 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Let's try that again
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 December 2014 16:35 (nine 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