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'd forgotten about jotters

Ds had jotters down on his list of things he needed for Uni

And of course, there is also the dreadful fate of "getting your jotters"

My mum used to call earwigs ""goolachans". And a coat hanger was a "shoulder stick". My dad, apparently had "spurtley" legs.

Did anyone else use “mink” and “minky” to mean dirty/rough (usually when talking about people, it was pretty rude and non-pc)

That was common where I grew up. "She's a dirty wee mink that yin"

They called them jotters at my (south of England) school 3 decades ago. Though I haven't heard the word much elsewhere, to be fair, except at home of course from Scottish family. Maybe some long ago Scottish teacher coined the phrase and it stuck?

DH calls squash "juice" and he's a southerner with Yorkshire parents, so is that normal usage in parts of England too?

DS got pulled up on his pronunciation at preschool when he talked about grandma taking him to get his jag (they're jabs here). Apparently he also got a whinge on one day at preschool about another child having been allowed a "jeely piece" in his packed lunch, which had them baffled. (Grandma strikes again.)

It was mitching school in our house, but I think that's used outside Scotland/northern Ireland too?

How about slaters for woodlice?

My great aunt had a glory hole, as in a big cupboard where everything was stored, I never had the heart to tell her the other meaning, so it used to make me laugh when she told my dh about it. She had a lobby and scullery as well.

We’d say Granny Slaters for woodlice and forky gollochs for... ? I don’t even know the English equivalent! It’s a small brown insect with pincers.

Just saw your post Sam! Earwigs, that’s it.

‘ Gan dookin’ for going swimming at the beach/harbour and ‘dookers’ for swimming costume.

‘En alow’ & ‘up abeen’ for underneath and on top, as in it’s en alow the sink or up abeen the dresser.

A phrase my mum still uses when telling a story is ‘in the hinner ein’ which I’ve never been able to understand! I think it’s something along the lines of meanwhile/you’d never believe what happened.

"Beds" was hopscotch. Other playing out games involved "elastics ","ropes" and "balls"

We didn’t say dogging school we said skiving?

Haven’t had time to read all the posts but has anyone mentioned “footer” as in to fiddle about with something!

Yes! "It's dead footery" if something is fiddly and time consuming.

"Heehaw bugger awe", is what my mum used to say to me.

Oh I haven't heard pockies used for mittens in years! and we played peevers (hopscotch) and usually used an old shoe polish tin as the slider thing.

My nana used to say “git yoor goonie oan” (put your nightdress on). It was a housecoat not dressing gown

Gutties were plimsolls we used for pe

I used to get my lunch in a poke so I could carry on playing outside

A half is a scotch or other spirit not a half pint

We used to say "plugging school" or " pulling a pluggy".

Who fancies a wee snister?
Translate to: who would like a sweet treat

I had to explain to my now in-laws what I meant when I asked for a drink of diluting juice. It seems so obvious but they had never heard of it!

Haven't read the whole thread but apparently no-one outwith Scotland uses outwith.

I'm Scottish. Means she does nothing

and usually used an old shoe polish tin as the slider thing.

Yes, filled with soil to make it heavier.

Does goonie refer to the nightie or the dressing gown? I'm sure my goonie was my nightie - from nightgown - but others say it's the dressing gown.

I'm English (south) and thought it meant "create a fuss"

The show polish slider thing we called a “peever”.

“Goonie” was definitely nightie not dressing gown in our house. I would often phone my Mum and hear her tell me “och I’ve been a bit lazy the day, ah’m still in ma goonie and it’s ten o’cloak!”

When I was at primary “beds” and “hopscotch” were different games. “Beds” was a rectangle divided into six equal squares with various rules about how you moved the peever round it with your foot, I think the rules were usually invented on the hoof! We did also play the more traditional hopscotch with a longer line of squares, single, double, single, double and so on. I can’t remember what that was called. This was in the early 1980s.

To the poster who asked about my brother whose tube was “footered” with in ICU, thanks. He’s been left paraplegic due to an incurable spinal cord injury but he’s doing OK.