Blackie Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Im sure this will be invaluble to all, It will be nice to be able to converse with our friends from over the border Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony tt Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Im sure this will be invaluble to all, It will be nice to be able to converse with our friends from over the border http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss239/Blackiekarolina/2012-03-02215642.jpg You will need this in May also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsween Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 You will need this in May also Ye wull need this in May an' a' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Pretty accurate tbh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross C Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 ahhh dinny ken like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 ahhh dinny ken like Lol, My brother used to say that loads along with "Aye i ken, I ken" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony tt Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 In alphabetical order A a dinnieken - I dont know ah'ament - I'm not ah'mno - I am not ah'murnie - I am not Away an bile yer heid - Get lost, shut up. Away an bile yer heid ya numpty,ye dinnae ken whit yer talkin aboot. B Ba'-heid - similar in meaning to Heid-the ba'. One with an over-inflated opinion of their own importance. pronounced Baw Heed may also be used adjectivally: Ba'heidit Example: Heh! You! Ba'-heid! Yer mate's near as ba'-heidit as you r! Back green - The common drying area (whether grassed or not) behind a tenement Baltic - Freezing. Really, very bloody cold. baw hair - a hairsbreadth. He missed me by a baw hair Ben - in or through as in:"huv ye seen ma glessies?!"aye thir ben the kitchen" Boggin - Useless, no good, smelly Bowfin - Smelly, dirty like mingin with the emphasis on the smelly. Ah wisht ah'd washed ma jumper efter ah wis sick oan it last week. It's pure bowfin noo, so it is.. Bumpin yer gums - Talking too much Away an stoap bumpin yer gums ya bletherin auld skite. Bunker - The work top in the kitchen usually next to the sink. Bytheway - The sole surname in use in Glesga."Ma name's Jimmy Bytheway." C Choob Tube. Stupid Person. Idiot. "Yer such a choob, of course yer tadger wid get inflamed is ye rubbed it hard wi nettles" Chookter - Country bumpkin Clootie dumplin - A boiled pudding rich with dried fruits. Close - An alleyway, a passage at the rear of houses. The passageway leading into a tenement building. May also be referred to on the east coast as a 'closie'. Cludgie - Toilet Clype - To inform on. A person who informs on others. A grass. A yopper Collie-buckie - A piggy back "C'moan, Hen, I'll gie ye a wee collie-buckie." Contermashious Contrary Coupon - Face Cow - The worst, the VERY WORST insult you can give a Scots woman is to call her a cow. All other sweary words pale into insignificance beside this most-powerful of derogatory terms. "Please Miss Magrit-Anne said a bad word" "What did she say Condoleeza?, you can spell it out if you don't want to swear." "She said ah wis a fu**in C.O.W. Miss." Crivens - Goodness me! (much loved by the Broons) D Daftie - A harmless idiot Dinnae bother aboot him, he's jist a daftie Dobber - Idiot Dreich - Description of the usual Scottish weather vizamp, dreary, overcast, drizzling, threatening to pish doon, looks like it will stay like this for weeks....... Drookit - Soaked to the skin. Ah'll need tae get hame an dry aff,that rains got me drookit. Dunderheid - Person of unsound mind. E Eeejit - A fool, an idiot F Fag - Cigarette (gies a fag) Fair Affronted - Embarrassed I didn't have a ticket for the alligator when the man came round. I was fair affronted! Fisty Cuffs - To start a fight G Gadgie - An old tinker word meaning a person from a town. Nowadays tends to be used to describe persons from the Central Belt - having implications similar to 'schemie' with regard to dress sense, intellect and big dug ownership. Used a lot by neeps. Gaun yersel - Go on yourself. Proceed alone in a bold or audacious manner. When Archie Gemmell passed the second Dutch defender half of Scotland leapt out of their armchairs shouting, "Gaun yersel wee man!" Geggy - Your mouth. Originally a travelling side-show or playlet. Hence 'penny geggie' and thereafter 'shut yer geggie!' (be quiet!) Wid ye shut yer geggy, it doesn't half spout a load of keech! Glaikit - Stupid, foolish, thoughtless, vacant. As in "Awa, yi glaikit bastirt!" Often used of gadgies, minkers and schemies. H Hackit - Ugly, usually femaleSee her, she's pure hackit, so she is Howfin - Smelly, Stinking"Man yer feet are howfin'" Humdinger - That which is exceptional; worthy of note; but not necessarily in a good way... often used of people whose behaviour is at odds with reality, or of things which are significantly different from normal. pronounced HUMM DING ER Example: Huv ye met her Maw? She's pure mental. A real humdinger!. Did ye read that Beewardrobe's latest? At's a real humdinger Hunners - A number generally more than 10.Ah've told you hunners ae times, dinnae pick yer nose wi yer fork I Irn Bru - A carbonated drink frequently used as a hangover cure Isnae - Is not - Tony Blair isnae a numpty, he's a eejit J Jag - an injection from the doctor Jakey - Indigent or homeless person prone to over-imbibe budget-priced beverages with high alcoholic content Example: See that auld jakey?. He' jist papped his empty Superlager can oantae the verandah. Jeely Piece - A jam sandwich K Keech - Rubbish, detritus, crap, verbal or written. Excretia, human or otherwise. L Laldy - To give it Laldy means to do anything with great gusto or to get laid in to someone big style whether physically or verbally.Ye shooda seen big Effie it the karaoke,she wiz geein it laldy aw night. M Manky - Clatty, boggin. "Away ye go an wash ya manky bastart" Mental - Crazy, unbalanced Watch oot fer him, he's pure mental. Messages - Shopping, usually food N Napper - Yer heid or head. Numpty - Numb tea. A useless individual.See that John Swinney? He's a right numpty, see that Jack McConnel? He's a real numpty. Nyaff - knee aff. Annoying wee ******, especially applicable to a politician. See you ya wee nyaff if ye dinnae ****** aff yer gettin' a bash in yer moosh O Oxter - An armpit. As in "S'mibbe Feb'ry, bit it's aye Augist in alow yir oxters" P Pan - To break or disfigure "You keep edgy fur the polis, while ah pan the windaes in!"or" Your gettin yir face panned in" Pettit lip - To extend the lower lip excessively implying discontent, or when sulking. A technique most commonly adopted by children. Pit away that pettit lip afore ah gie ye a skelp oan the erse! Piece - Sandwich piece poke - a bag containing your piece(s) POLLIS - The police Poor oot - Similar to scramble, best man or groom chucks money from the car when leaving the wedding Puggled - in the old sense meaning tired,out of breath --Ah'm ferr puggled efter climbin' yon stairs. Puggy - Fruit machine. Derived from an old word for 'monkey' and originally applied to an organ-grinder's instrument ('puggy machine'). Thence used for fruit machines but now applied to bank machines. 'Ah'd buy a round but the puggy's f***ed' Puss - Face, fizzog, coupon. Pronounced 'pus'. As in: "Eh'll gie yi the affiest dab in the puss". Q Quine - A young girl, lassie R Radge - Crazy person, madman To do something crazy S Sassenach - An English person ExampleYon sassenach has a coupon like a tumshie Schemie - A person who inhabits a large housing scheme in the Central Belt. Identifiable by lack of intellect, dress sense and money. Always wears trackie bottoms, an Old Firm top, back to front baseball cap and is usually being dragged around by large doag. AKA Gadgie, minker, midgie raker. Scooby - inkling, clueRhyming slang from "Scooby Doo"= "Clue" Example: Naw ah don't know wherr yer purse is. Huvny a scooby Scratcher - Bed (my Grandad says this all the time ) Scunner - to sicken, disgust, to bore to the point of annoyance. Example: Wid thon Peruvian Nose Flute music no jist scunner ye? That which sickens, disgusts or bores.... also the state of being scunnered Example: See you, ye're nuhhin bit a wee scunner! Example: Since the New Year, ah've took a right scunner tae the drink.... Scunner 2 The shuddering near-retch spasm of the throat when confronted by something particularly distasteful. Falls just short of a "Dry Boak". Imagine the first time you saw Les Dennis. That's a scunner. Skiver - one who skives, skiving - the art of not doing any work Sliced sausage aka 'square' sausage or Larne sausage - Spicey sausage mix which comes in slices rather than the traditional 'hot dog' sausage shape. Spicier than traditional sausages, and another key ingredient tae a traditional big 'fry up'... Oh an a staple at some caifs... as in 'ye cannae beat a roll on sossidge'.... Stramash - A bit of bother, a scuffle. In recent times only used by (the late, talentless) Jimmy Sanderson and (possibly also deid) Arthur Montford, to describe a messy, almost game-winning/losing tangle of limbs in either goalmouth of the local sports stadium. Swally - alcoholic drink, bevy, eg "Ye gaun oot furra swally the night CJ?" "Naw ah've goat a big ironin' tae dae, an then ah've goat tae wax mah back" T Tadger - A penis. "My that's some tadger ye've goat therr big man!" W Wally Dug - An ornamental china canine figure, usually owned in pairs and placed at opposite ends of the mantelpiece. It is believed that the only known owner if this kind of twee ****e was Maw Broon. Wheesht - Be quiet, stop talking/making a noiseHaud yer wheesht, ah'm oan the phone Whirlypits - the The feeling, when lying in bed after consuming copious amounts of bevvy, that the whole world is spinning around your head. X X * ! ? + * Any sweary word which canny get pit intae a book suitable fur weans.Fur example Trainspotting. x*?/* x-%!* x@)+} x*?/* he x*?/* Bet ye cannae find any ither yins beginin wi X fur yonks. Y ya bam pot yae - Silly ya pure mad dafty - you really stupid idiot Yer Maw - a common insult. can turn any question into an insult; "where wur you las nigh'?" "yer maw" "you dae anyhing yesterday?" "aye, yur maw" Yooz - Everybody standing in front of you when you are drunk, you feel oppressed ... What are yooz looking at? Never seen a daft wee keelie in a bunnet buckled before? Z Zarrafakt - A term used when someone tells ye somethin. Meaning, Oh is that so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Lol, Thats awesome Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony tt Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I love this one "where wur you las nigh'?" "yer maw" "you dae anyhing yesterday?" "aye, yur maw" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 This one had me crying with laughter for some reason; Piece - Sandwich piece poke - a bag containing your piece(s) lol The whole thing was great, but pretty tough to read for an English gent such as myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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