As my granny used to say.....

Er, my Gran used to call teeth 'rackles'. "Rub yer rackles or the English'll get yeh", she used to say.

True story.

bowg = stomach (that's a Caithness one, definitely)
keeker = black eye
bauchle = a scabby old shoe (or a skanky person by extension)
away in a dwam = daydreaming (OK, I have heard that off other people, but not that many)

I can't even think of things that might be odd because I just use words I grew up listening to and it never occurred to me that they might be odd. I only found out a couple of weeks ago that scaffy wasn't in common usage down here (focus group = three blokes in the pub).

Xpost = Fit as a butcher's dog, innit?

Face as long as a wet weekend.

xp: my mom says "fat."

"Crotchety" - someone who's angry and upset: "Don't get crotchety". I've never heard this used since, but it's pretty great!

Really? I've heard this all over the States, but usually only in conjunction with phrases like "crotchety old man."

Gadgie/gadgiecoff = a bloke
Burach/guddle/midden = a great big untidy mess (much like my house at the moment)

The best insult I ever heard my dad shout at the football was to any useless striker who couldn't direct a header = "he's got a head like a Tobermory Tattie". (it's a sweetie).

ailsa: i think yr etymology might yet be proved correct. either way: thank you all who responded.

i've seen this at the bookstore and one day i'm going to sit down in the starbucks and read it:

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Gutties - trainers

"I've got a mouth shaped for ______________" used by my gran - ie: "I had a mouth shaped for a mutton pie and they had none left."

Or "I took a notion for a mutton pie"

Classic insult in the teenage race to lose one's virginity: "You still think a stonner's for pishing over high walls!"
The worst thing imaginable at school was to be the boy who "got a stonner in the showers"

Another horrible word for "courting" here in the west of Scotland is "winching". I've actually heard someone say "Not in the face, I'm winching" before a street fight.

little bosthoons! my mum used to call people "bastidges and iceholes", but i've no idea where she got that from.

Dirty-lookin' eejit
Dirty-lookin' up all night (note that this in no way implies that you have been up all night. It is not the same as being a dirty stop-out)

Grimly, I've an idea your mam got that from a Mel Brooks film, or something similar.

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").

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

puddock - a toad
speug - a sparrow

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.

clipe: tell-tale, school supergrass type

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

stank - a drain or drain cover