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 remember "sweetie wife"...meaning a rather twee, homely woman.

Anyone remember Faces in Motherwell

And my mum would pronounce John Menzies" (was a chain of stationery shops years ago) as "John Mingiss".

Yes to Mingiss!

DID YOU KNOW... (I love this sooooo much) that "clapping", as in "to clap a dug", is actually from Norse? I realised this when we were on holiday in Sweden this summer, and we went to Skansen in Stockholm which is a large zoo/outdoor museum thing, and they had signs up that said "Här kan du klappa djur" which means "here you can stroke the animals". I asked the lady who we rented the holiday house off of and she confirmed it. It was great fun trying to read Swedish - DH is a native German speaker and between him and me with the Scottish dialect words we could read most signage and newspaper headlines and stuff.

Mingiss is the correct Scots way to pronounce Menzies!

I was abroad in a taverna in the countryside -as the local farmers and workers arrived for lunch there was much hand shaking/holding, arms round shoulders, noisy. I compared to farmers greeting each other at home, there'd be a slight lean of the head, Ayee. Maybe just a nod back or another Aye and intake of breath . But I know it means the same.

You dancin ?
You askin?

If you asked my mother for something she would say...

Your arse is hinging out the windae and the rain's battering down on it

In other words, no

apostropheuse that’s brilliant! I’ve heard “yer erse is oot the windae” but never anything added on! I’m going to start using that

You dancin

Naw it's just the way I'm staunin.

toomuch that’s brilliant. My DH is half Norwegian- he doesn’t speak it but we go there sometimes to visit relatives and I have noticed a lot of Norwegian words that sound like Scots words I know (for example “mor” for “mother” is pronounced exactly like “Maw” as in Maw Broon!) I hadn’t noticed clapping/klapping though.

Ma erse is makin buttons

Wasn't a sweetie wife usually a man?

Aye I only ever heard it used to men.

Yes, a gossipy man. It wasn't a compliment!

The one that makes me laugh most in Norwegian though is that they say something like “alle sammen” to mean everyone and it sounded like my Grandmother-in-law was constantly talking about Alex Salmond .

Yes, I live next door to a sweetie wife. He's now about 85 and loves gossiping. He has a lawn like a bowling green and a garden to die for. Nobody can visit without crawling commando style up my garden path -
workers, postmen, window cleaners, delivery drivers, family. He's THERE!

My neigbourhood sweetie wife knows EVERYTHING he's great😂

Scottish GPs - Heehaw always meant 'F*ck all'

Yeah Jessie stuff like "barn" (bairn) for child, "braw" (however it's spelled) for good - we sat watching the Bridge together and it was like spot the Scottish word. The "alle sammen" thing is really funny. It's like he gets everywhere

I say this loads! Love it.

I know (for example “mor” for “mother” is pronounced exactly like “Maw” as in Maw Broon!)

"Maw" is also used in the US, mainly the rural South. I always assumed it was more an accent thing but now I think maybe it harkens back to Scottish settlers.

I saw someone use she goes heehaw on here a few days ago and didn't get it !! Great saying

I'm in the Midlands and I say turn the big light off - but I'm old

There's also the description of someone being a "nippy sweety" and no, it doesn't mean fast