Do you know what is meant by 'she does heehaw?'

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Said this about a particularly lazy colleague today and had my immediate neighbour in tears laughing at it!

I'm Scottish and she's English, she claims never to have heard it before!

Shed for a parting in your hair.

When I was at uni there was an English girl in one of my classes. She went for a haircut one day and came back looking quite disturbed because the hairdresser had said to her, "Dae ye want me to shift your shed?"

I’ve not heard of shed! We called finding the parting in your hair “finding your score” score was the line parting .. is that an everywhere thing?? Im questioning everything now 😂

This thread is shockingly instructional.... for scots.
Did not realise 'shed' was Scottish. Clearly never needed to have a conversation about my hair parting, in London, ever.(30 years).
Didnt get my hair done often, in fairness.
Thanks for the revelation seeingadistance

I didn’t know ‘swithering’ was Scottish until the blank looks in England. (People there sometimes use ‘havering’ to mean swithering, but we Scots know it doesn’t.)

Though ‘outside a city wall’ was the version of the hymn I learnt, a million years ago in Fife...?

I don't know if this one has been said or not but... "be careful with your parcels when you are coming back from town"... town being Glasgow and parcels being your shopping bags

@Effiewhaursmabaffies this! When I lived in NL my Dutch neighbour had previously worked in Peterhead Prison (lovely) and she said the crossover between some of the words, weirdly in particular Doric was phenomenal.

I love Gary, the episode with the Bolex and his favourite drink- a 'boke' ( baileys and coke)!

I'm Scottish- I have never heard of that phrase- language varies a lot in different parts of Scotland.

Thank you so much for this thread.
Found this archive, ya wee beauty

mobile.twitter.com/ScottishWords

Perhaps mumsnet should be renamed clishmaclaiver.....

"Away and raffle yourself" is one of my favourites.

@StellaCorona my wee girls love the Maisie stories. We have friends in Morningside who send us them. Very sad when I heard about your mother. I hope she knew how much she was loved and thought of.

west of scotland born and bred here

last year my drumchapel manager said "cooree in" (not sure about spelling)

Apparently means "move a bit closer"

Never heard it before and he was shocked

Also, apparently a "whirly gig" is Scottish too?

this thread has made me want a roll n sausage now, maybe with a tattie scone

Square sausage? I've had to describe this to people at work but I don't think they are convinced that fried square sausage in a morning roll is a thing of real beauty. Not that you can get either in London. Oh, the travesty that is sainsburys 'morning rolls'! I got some yesterday and DS had one this morning - he wasn't impressed.

And Caboc cheese. Oh my God, I could eat my body weight on oatcakes.

Yes to cooree in and Whitley gig.. didn’t know whirly gig was Scottish!

skinny malinky long legs.....

ye cannae throw yer granny aff the bus

"face like a burst baw"

Whirly*

Use outwith all the time - love it but yes the English folk got vey confused.

They also didn’t like yous

We called a scramble a scatter - don’t think they do them anymore

Silver coins in prams / purses - my mum still does this

Are you Winching - hate that

Used to put the messages in the press

What about lunch/tea/dinner/supper. That can cause confusion too

Avoiding certain places cause of the "jakeys" and "neds"

This thread is full of my people :-)

I'm a Scot, married to an Englishman and living in England (with two English children, I suppose!). So many of these expressions are used by me in our house, and seeing them all written here makes me a bit homesick...

Juice definitely caused mirth early in our relationship. DH took the piss when I described coke as juice and asked me what fruit I thought coke was the juice of.

Does anyone else say diluting juice?! English husband tells me the rest of the country call it squash...

Outwith is a wonderful word. A wonderful, useful word. Unfortunately the English haven't got round to pinching it yet, which is the loss. Equally unfortunately I had marks deducted for using it in a master's thesis in England because of their shoddy language skills. Apparently it's not standard English. It bloody was when I was a lawyer in Scotland: I reckon I used it about 10 times a day!

Face like a skelp'd arse.

One of my favourite phrases, to be used when you're hungover and feeling a bit jittery, rattling like a skeleton having a wank in a biscuit tin. Very descriptive I think. 💀

A big lanky streak of pish- A tall rather useless man.

glaikit look on her coupon.. Love it. My dad used to say 'fushionless' when somebody wasn't getting on with the job.

Yy diluting juice here too. Central belt.