Scottish words.

[Lubos left peg]

So had a wee chat with my little ghirls as I was putting them to bed tonight. They are 9 and 5 year old. My 5 year old asks...."apart from wee and aye what are other Scottish words daddy" and I must have been down here to long cos for the life of me I couldnt think of any!!! Had them saying words like girl and world and curly wurly and bless them they attempted to speak like me...rolling their r's. My little ones are proper Surrey so it was hilarious in their wee English accents.....anyway can anyone give me some scottish slang words to teach them...even old, not used much words. Just a bit of fun folks and keep it clean...they're only babies

 

[Lubos left peg]

Weans instead of children...i should have thought of that!!!

 

[Lubos left peg]

I'm sure Mr Duffy will be good at this...he was kicking about in the days of rabbie burns after all

 

[Bellshill bhoy]

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

 

[Lubos left peg]

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

thanks for that...WC close the thread now please

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

We dinnae use weans over on the East coast - it is bairns we say. A few of my favourites:

- crabbit
- loon
- lassie (or quine up here in the Aberdeen area)
- driech (there is not a better word in the world to descride a grey overcast miserable rainy day)

 

[Lubos left peg]

I'm going to have so much fun with them tomorrow with those words Bb....cheers mate

 

[Lubos left peg]

We dinnae use weans over on the East coast - it is bairns we say. A few of my favourites:

- crabbit
- loon
- lassie (or quine up here in the Aberdeen area)
- driech (there is not a better word in the world to descride a grey overcast miserable rainy day)

I like driech....great word

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

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

Bloody hell BB. Have you bern sitting for months waiting for this question? We certainly found your specialist subject!

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

I like driech....great word

No doubt I have more need of it up here than you do down south!

 

[Lubos left peg]

No doubt I have more need of it up here than you do down south!

Reached 37 degrees down here 2 weeks ago Bridie.....terrible so it is

 

[Spherical Planet]

Eh ken ye telt wiz ti keep it clean, but meh favrit word is toley (as in a slightly wee'er jobbie)

Context: ich, mich, hen's keech, toley, bum, fart and you are not out.

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

Eh ken ye telt wiz ti keep it clean, but meh favrit word is toley (as in a slightly wee'er jobbie)

Context: ich, mich, hen's keech, toley, bum, fart and you are not out.

Is a toley a Dundee/Tayside/Angus word? I never hear it any more up here in sheepshagging country.

 

[Lubos left peg]

Eh ken ye telt wiz ti keep it clean, but meh favrit word is toley (as in a slightly wee'er jobbie)

Context: ich, mich, hen's keech, toley, bum, fart and you are not out.

 

[Spherical Planet]

Is a toley a Dundee/Tayside/Angus word? I never hear it any more up here in sheepshagging country.

Don't really know, BB........it's just the go to word when somebody doesn't know how to flush the chantie (there's a word) properly, as in: "oh look, sumdee's left a big toley that's the spittin' image o' thon Alfredo Morelos

 

[Bridie Bhoy]

Don't really know, BB........it's just the go to word when somebody doesn't know how to flush the chantie (there's a word) properly, as in: "oh look, sumdee's left a big toley that's the spittin' image o' thon Alfredo Morelos

And it has scored as many goals against the mighty Hoops as that useless Morelos too!

 

[Lubos left peg]

Don't really know, BB........it's just the go to word when somebody doesn't know how to flush the chantie (there's a word) properly, as in: "oh look, sumdee's left a big toley that's the spittin' image o' thon Alfredo Morelos

You had to take my nice, innocent thread and take it down this route didnt you SP!!

 

[Spherical Planet]

And it has scored as many goals against the mighty Hoops as that useless Morelos too!

Dis'nae smell as bad as alfie though

 

[Spherical Planet]

You had to take my nice, innocent thread and take it down this route didnt you SP!!

Wait till Imatim gets a goo o' it

 

[Lubos left peg]

Dis'nae smell as bad as alfie though

Quick, theres time to pull it back....before the likes of kelly and jam get here. Lets be sensible....less of the jobbie chat.....ohh jobbie...thats one!!!!