Scottish words.

Bellshill bhoy said:
I think these will keep you going for a while...all clean
  • Aboot – About
  • Ain – Own
  • Auld – Old
  • Aye – Yes
  • Bahooky – Backside, bum
  • Bairn – Baby
  • Baw – Ball
  • Bawface – Describes someone with a big round face.
  • Ben – Mountain, or through
  • Bide – Depending on the context, means wait, or stay.
  • Blether – Talkative, when referred to a person. To “have a blether” is to have a chat.
  • Boke – Vomit. “He gies me the boke”. He makes me want to vomit.
  • Bonnie – Beautiful
  • Bowfing – Smelly, horrible
  • Braw – Good, or brilliant
  • Breeks – Trousers
  • Coo – Cow
  • Crabbit – Bad tempered
  • Cry – Call, as in what do you cry him?
  • Dae – Do
  • Dauner – Walk – “I’m away for a dauner”
  • Didnae – Didn’t
  • Dinnae – Don’t
  • Drap – Drop
  • Dreep – Drip
  • Drookit – Soaking wet
  • Dug – Dog
  • Dunderheid, Eejit, Galoot, Numptie – All mean idiot
  • Dunt – Bump
  • Em – Them
  • Emdy – Anybody
  • Feart – Afraid
  • Frae – From
  • Gallus – Bravado, over-confident
  • Gang – Go
  • Gaunnae – Going to
  • Geeza haun – Give me a hand (help me).
  • Geggie – Mouth, as in “shut your geggie”
  • Glaikit – Stupid, slow on the uptake
  • Goonie – Nightgown
  • Greet – Cry
  • Gumption – Common sense, initiative
  • Hae – Have
  • Hame – Home
  • Haud – Hold
  • Haver – Talk rubbish
  • Hing – Hang
  • Hoachin’ – Very busy
  • Hokin’ – Rummaging
  • Honkin’, Hummin’, Howlin’ – Bad smell
  • Hoose – House
  • How no – Why not
  • Hunner – Hundred
  • Huvnae – Haven’t
  • Keek – A little look
  • Ken – Know
  • Lum – Chimney
  • Ma – My or Mum
  • Mair – More
  • Merrit – Married
  • Mockit, Manky, Mingin’, Boggin’ – All mean dirty
  • Mon – Come on
  • Moose – Mouse
  • Nane – None
  • Naw – No
  • Neep, Tumshie – Turnip
  • Noo – Now
  • Oot – Out
  • Pap – Throw
  • Peely Wally – Pale
  • Piece – A sandwich
  • Poke – (to poke – to prod) (a poke – a paper bag)
  • Reek – Smell, emit smoke
  • Riddy – A red face, embarrassed
  • Sassenach – From the Gaelic word sasunnach, meaning Saxon, and used to describe non-Gaelic speaking Scottish Lowlanders (and our English friends).
  • Screwball – Unhinged, mad
  • Scullery – Kitchen
  • Scunnered – Bored, fed up
  • Shoogle – Shake
  • Shoogly – Shaky, wobbly
  • Simmet – Gents singlet
  • Skelp – Slap
  • Skoosh – Lemonade (or fizzy drink)
  • Sleekit – Sly, sneaky
  • Stookie – Plaster cast (for a broken bone)
  • Stour – Dust
  • Tae – To
  • Tattie – Potato
  • Telt – Told
  • Thon – That
  • Totie – Very small
  • Wan – One
  • Wean – Child
  • Wellies – Wellington boots
  • Wha – Who
  • Wheesht – Quiet
  • Whit – What
  • Willnae – Will not
  • Widnae – Would not
  • Windae – Window
  • Wummin – Women
  • Yappy dug – Wee barking dog
  • Ye – You
  • Yer – Your
  • Yin – One
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