As my granny used to say.....

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

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.

puggled - knackered, bushed, tired

... not sure of the spelling of that one

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.

Moroculous (sp?) - steaming drunk

Ginger - fizzy juice (pop?)

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

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

Is 'beastie' universal for insect?

Peely Wally = probably my favourite Scots phrase ever

"Ya dirty bissum ye've skittered yer breeks"

Oos - fluff

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? :)

Baffies anyone?