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!

I didn't know that about squint!

Have we had bogle? As is "i'm away for a wee bogle about the shops" or "geez a wee bogle at yer magazine". Also swatch, "geez a swatch of yer crossward, I think I've solved 4 doon".

plooks = spots

And bogie definitely has its own meaning here

Boak/boke

I like your patter OP.

Did anyone have a 'pulley' in their kitchen to hang the wet washing on?

What about doggin'? = Bunking school.

I got a pulley put into my utility room, it's fab! Even better that your clothes don't stink of mince or chip fat as they did when we were growing up as our one in the house when we were kids was in the kitchen.

WaxOnFeckOff

Oooh I'd love a pulley again, I didn't know they were still a thing.

we had work done to our house and it was basically just so we could get a pulley and a cat flap. DH jokes that they were the most expensive clothes airer and cat flap ever!

I have a 7 slat one, takes a full washing load and dries overnight or I can do one in the day as well if the house is warm (i.e. at the weekend if we are home).

I have this one:

www.castinstyle.co.uk/product.php/1283/seven-lath-gismo-kitchen-maid-reg-clothes-dryer/993826401c814b32003fd98d0eea0824

We had a pulley growing up and I have bought one for my utility room!

This thread has been brilliant - I just love it!

@stellacorona - I also met your Mum, both in Edinburgh and when she visited our local library and last weekend, my mum passed my signed copy of 'Maisie meets her match' on to my daughter - I swear we had to read it 7 times within the first 24 hours of that book being home with us. She absolutely loves it. The memories came flooding back to me too - especially as we used to listen to the stories on cassette on long car journeys and I can still hear the miaowing in the tunes between the stories.

That was when we weren't listening to my Dad's favourite - Scotland the What? which gave me a schooling in doric that's bemused my english DH since. It wasn't typical listening material for a 10 year old but reading this thread gives me the notion that some of yous'll have heard it too. At the oyster festival yesterday in Stranraer I saw a couple of kippers for sale and a wee voice in my head said 'aye, she shouldnae have had a kipper fur her breakfast'

@prettybird - I say 'through by' meaning another room (usually the one we've just been in - e.g. english DH: 'where's my phone?' me: you left it through by) I've a feeling this is a scottish thing too.

WaxOnFeckOff

That is fantastic and so reasonably priced, I'm definitely going to get one, thanks for the info.

AlecorAlonzo thank you for "away and raffle yourself" (p.15) which got me laughing out loud. Top phrase.

DH says "Away and raffle your doughnuts"

DH says ‘away and raffle yer dug’

no bother 2doubles we got the 1.8 meter one but they do loads of sizes. Our builder put it up and screwed it right into the joists so it's solid as feck. Wee tip, remember and put a knot in the rope to hook it at the height for hanging the washing on as well as one at the height you want it on when it's up drying.

My dps favourite saying to me is "away n bile yet heid".

@2doubles

My mum still has a pulley, she uses it to hang pots on now though, her kitchen is only wee.

A lot of Scottish expressions I actually often hear in Lancashire where I'm from, which probably made my move to Glasgow a lot easier.
But this thread is great! So many new things to say! Going to have to ask my friends about some of these and introduce them to old friends (who will have no clue what I'm saying!) love it

I’ve decided that I want to be Scottish, being southern English is so dull.

What do I need to do? Is there a form I can fill out?

Wee tadger, one of my favourites 😂

My personal favourites are Glaikit, Mockit(Mochit?) and Hackit - I have known someone who had the misfortune to be all 3.

How about this one...
I am just back from getting the messages and just need to put them in the press.

I hadn't realised that about squint either (let alone squinty ) so looked it up in both my OED and Collins Dictionaries - and they didn't have any meanings that even approached the adjective with the meaning "not straight"

Just some nonsense about eyes that are skew-wiff (is that a Scottish word too? - actually Carrie I'd written that comment before seeing yours ) or a verb about narrowed eyes and something about a narrow or oblique opening. Didn't even mention the Scottish usage ....at least the Scottish usage of outwith got a mention

Mentioned that squint wasn't English English to my dad (South African but in Scotland for over 50 years) and dh (Glasgow born and bred) and they were gobsmacked. Dad is going to look it up in a Scottish dictionary that he has but couldn't find this evening

Dh often says "Away 'n' raffle yerself"

Also Scottish living in England, had no idea doing hee-haw was Scottish. Or that there was another name for whirly gig. It does explain though why family in England say 'fizzy pop' instead of 'fizzy juice', which is what I would say.

Also remember 'play piece', 'chum you to the shops' 'bidie in' (great, pejorative phrase that), 'going to play at your bit'.

My dp was mortified when I asked for a fish supper in a Yorkshire chip shop once, and also thought I was going mad when I said I'd bring the messages from the car.

My grandparents used to say back lobby for hall and gamp for umbrella.

One thing I have not heard anyone say for years is clip shear for earwig - is that a Scottish word?

What on earth do people in England call a fish supper? 😂 I thought everyone called it that!