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!

hackit A poster on MN was discussing the fact that Scottish schools don't have a Reception class and Reception in Scotland means a place where you discuss appointments with a hackit faced wifie.

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

I think they call it fish and chips.... :o

I take it that means that they can't have the rhyming slang relating to "a single fish?"

Actually is pish peculiar to Scotland too? I think shite is more scottish isn't it?

I think they just call it fish and chips. I'm American, but lived in Scotland for a while. I would love a fish supper right now.

I haven't heard it for years but een instead of eye. You huv a squinty een.

@dontrocktheboat YES! I thought this was just my funny family 😂 I have had some funny looks trying to describe a clipshear and had no idea what an earwig was. We also call woodlouse , slaters??!

Yup I have loads of bloody slaters in my house just now.

"Yin" for "one. Big yin. Wee yin to refer to someone or something small or big.

"Ken" is a favourite where we stay.

When I was telling dh about this thread and that squint meaning "not straight" was a purely Scottish word, he said, "They're talking pish"

....talking of squint, what about the Squinty Bridge?!

Dinnae ken if anybody said it yet but feart/feartie is one I use often.

My Mum hated slaters with a passion! Not men who fixed the roof

I think slaters has been on a "regional UK lingo" thread before and it's not just Scots who call them that.

My Glaswegian friend used to say that people were "thick as mince" - I liked that phrase.

We didn't have earwigs, we had forkietails.

Scaffies were our bucket men. "What day is bucket day?"

Just remembered...forkie tails OR horny gollachs.

Singingit - glad I did not hallucinate clipshears. I force myself to say earwig for my kids and it sounds weird. Yes to slaters too!

Hornie gollachs is great!

Yes to slaters and horny gollochs, although it was just my aberdonian friends who said the latter.
My mum always said scaffies.
One of my ancestors in the Scottish bit of the family tree was described as a 'scavenger' in his laters years on the census. I was a bit upset thinking it was akin to beggar but mother said it was a bin man and we discussed whether this was the origin of scaffy.

@UnlikelyMary - that's interested and might be the case. I always wondered where the word scaffie came from.

Stoor/stoory for dust/ dusty

Door/ doorfaced

Lugs, neb, bahookie, fud , boaby...

And yes to thick as mince. ! 😂

We had a kitchenette, I suppose because it was quite small. with the bunker too.

Has anyone mentioned pawkies? Where I live now they're just called mittens but I'm sure growing up near Edinburgh they were pawkies. And definitely clipshears for earwigs. Here they're called forkietailies.

Outside we played pickies, which has loads of different words in different areas. I think the English is hopscotch but we'd never say that.

Yes to clipshear!

In fact, if you’re in your gladrags ready to go out my dad says you’re ‘done up like a clipshear’

I'd forgotten some of yours "Motheroffourdragons". We had "shade" instead of shed (parting). Jotters ..."get your jotters out"

awww "nickum" haven't heard that for a wee while

www.heraldscotland.com/news/13140464.word-up-20-of-the-best-doric-terms/

Gosh, jotters. My DS is not at school yet so I had no idea that was not what they were called in England!

My Mum called the worktop a bunker too and I’d also forgotten “shed” for parting...though I seem to remember that it could also mean hair that was a right mess as in “your hair’s a total shed”.

Did anyone else use “mink” and “minky” to mean dirty/rough (usually when talking about people, it was pretty rude and non-pc)? I have a feeling it was very local to where I come from.

Also, people have mentioned “dogging” school but we used to say “plugging it”.

Being "given your jotters" = sacked

Haven’t had time to read all the posts but has anyone mentioned “footer” as in to fiddle about with something! My friend and I always remember our primary school sewing teacher, a terrifying woman, shouting at us for not holding our fabric correctly and “footering away at the edge”.

More recently, my brother was in intensive care in a coma, a very difficult time. At one point a youngish doctor came in to deal with an alarm that was going off on a machine and when she had restabilised him came to explain to us that she “just had a wee footer with the suction pipe in his chest and that sorted it”. Even in that context it made me laugh.