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!

Is it? I didn’t know that! I’ve lived in England before too!

We call it a cuddy back in Dundee

Also piggy back. We’d swap between the two.

Stickin Oot as a way to describe something that was nice or looked nice. So you may have been told you looked stickin oot in your new clothes.

Affy no weel and no affy weel used to describe how unwell someone was and how close to deaths door they may be. You knew which saying was considered more serious by the person you were talking to by how they'd lower the tone of their voice if the person wasn’t expected to survive.

Dinnae fash yersel hen - don’t upset yourself.

Ask meh arse - A way to let someone know you were fed up being asked questions and you didn’t know the answer.

A haverin cuddy - someone who talks too much.

And diluting juice is Squash. Anything fizzy in a tin is lemonade. Red lemonade, orange lemonade etc except for coke and Pepsi which were given the correct name.

"Away and raffle yourself"

‘she can away and fling shite at hersel’.

‘awa an take yer face for a shite’

These are excellent!

Does anyone else say “face like a chewed up toffee”? Probably just me.

Away in and get the roasted cheese on ya walloper - Go away you are annoying me.

Face like a weasel chewing chips is something I heard once but think it was of their own invention.

Any east coaster explain "biscuit ersed"? I keep seeing it in Irvine Welsh books, never hear it in Glasgow.

LoisWilkerson1 I cant think of a literal translation but it would be reasonable to tell someone who was biscuit ersed to away and take their face for a shite.

Sour faced or moody I suppose is the closest.

It's a cracking saying, it makes me smile when I see it.

It is eh? Scots and modern Scots is just brilliant.

If I’m ever having a crap day a quick swatch at legendary Scottish twitter cheers me right up!

Did anyone see the one about the pished guy in Glasgow waving a bottle of Bucky shouting “Am Tonic the Seshog”? Buckled!

Never seen that twitter account will have a swatch eh?

My DH insists on roasted cheese which is bread with sliced cheese on top then put under the grill - so only one side gets toasted. I insist on cheese on toast, toast must be made properly first then grated cheese on it and grilled.

We make our cheese/toast snacks separately to avoid divorce. It’s a contentious one!

DH will call somoene ‘pathetic and biscuit ersed’ If they’re looking pathetic or like someone’s pissed in their chips.

Neither of you are right, you toast one side of the bread under the grill and then turn it and place cheese, sliced or grated on the bread side and back under the grill. Maybe that's a compromised? :o

And it's toast on cheese, same as roll on bacon/sausage etc.

LoisWilkerson1 just google Scottish twitter, it’s fucking hilarious!

There’s an English translation of Scots insults somewhere too, I nearly died laughing at that!

Ya mangled fud - you misshapen vagina

I honestly thought that oxters was a "proper" word until a heated discussed with an English person.

insults translated

Not for the fair hearted but by fuck it’s funny!

Biscuit arsed is similar to torn faced but with a touch of indignation and snobbery added.

Work for a funeral director and we use "outwith" a lot in connection with Council Charges i.e if someone dies outwith the council boundary but they wanted to be buried in that particular councils cemetery then an "outwith fee" would apply. The Councils we deal with all call it an "outwith fee". It would be completely weird to note it as a "without fee"

I love this thread!
We always used big light too, but then my Dad's from Yorkshire, so maybe that's why (Londoners, the rest of the family)

I know a fair few of these but I hadn't heard of your OP phrase, nor clapping the dog!

And I love the Scottish turn of phrase in insults - best ever. Especially in reference to Farthead coming to Scotland...

Smelly oxters 😂 forgot that one

But I do really want to know how "messages" translated to "shopping" (or the other way around, whichever)

The original message was the shopping list, I’m sure, and it went from there.

As in you'd have it in your hand so you’d go to get the message.

What about being up to “high-do”

“Whits fur ye’ll no go past ye”

“Getting jags” rather than vaccinations

And “going to the pictures” is that Scottish!?

YY to jags instead of injections. M
Up tae ninety was another one instead of up to high doe.

Also, not a nice one, but “away wi the goalie” as an alternative to batshit?

Ah thanks, YetalkshiteHen (also great name) - that does make sense.