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!

Ceara I am STILL indignant about my teacher in Primary 5 correcting my written work from “jag” to “jab” because, although we were in Scotland, she was English! I think even at that age I had a sense that if you were going to use a colloquial word instead of “injection” or “inoculation” then you should be allowed to use the one local to you .

I'd forgotten goonie! Haven't heard that since childhood.

To be fair re jag, DS was English at an English preschool but you should definitely have been allowed to use the local colloquialism in actual Scotland :-)

"Where do you stay" - not being Scottish (nor British) I knew what it meant, so answered where I lived. A few weeks later it turned out the speaker actually did mean where I stayed and not where I lived.

Love "havering", "footerin' ", "wee-un" or "wain". Hate the use of "juice" for any soft drink, juice is juice, of fruit, a vegetable or meat in my dictionary.

"Putting things past" - Orcadian for "putting things away" (for example, after washing up).

Another list: "claes", "clapshot", "neeps", "hoose", "flitting", "ta ta de noo", "but 'n' ben", "gey", "breeks", "fae", "peedie" (Orc.), "muckle", "cloot", "bahooky", "gie it laldy", "sgooglie".

Breeks 😬

Used to say 'ticking it' for missing school.
Forgot about goonie as well.
Also 'fair wabbit' - don't think there is an accurate English equivalent for either that or 'gey driech'

Where do you bide? For where do you stay.

And goonie is still my dressing gown in this house. Baffies are slippers.

Dunt. Like gettin a dunt oan the heid.

Clarty is a great word with no standard English equivalent that I have ever come across. Maybe “mucky” at a push?

I always thought it was clatty, not clarty!

I remember a pub in Glasgow called Cleopatras. It was a pure dive and known locally as ClattyPats

'I took no weil'

A 'fancy wummin'

I remember a pub in Glasgow called Cleopatras. It was a pure dive and known locally as ClattyPats How bloody wonderful! I miss the sticky carpet dives. We used to go to The Kilt at Newmains. Happy days.

Ah, Clatty Pat's, where you never fell over drunk because your feet were firmly stuck to the floor

I'm Scottish and I understand it and think it's brilliant

Hooshoes.
Bowfing.
Plunking

And lastly, the dreaded 'boofers'

Haven't thought of these for years.

I did use outwith in an email to our accountant today. She was perplexed to say the least. Did not know it was not a usual word.

I'm a Fifer and I understood it OP...I use it as well.

I'll talk about redding up the house -cleaning the house. My granny would talk about having to "red up the hoose"

Hi fellow Clattypat lovers (ahem), that delightful, sticky-carpeted, quality establishment.

You really had to be steamin to set foot inside it, didn't you?!

It's was boggin/bowfin/mawkit

@Motheroffourdragons, Aye right

Mawkit! Had forgotten that one!

derxa remember that place well! It’s not far from me at all!

Think it’s gone now though