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!

My granny used to describe people as "as civil as a hoor at a christening" or "as hard as a hoor's heart", depending on whether she liked the person or not.

Might have been her being Irish though. She had a great turn of phrase. 😂

apostropheuse i cannae work out which one is the for the person she liked

As civil as a hoor at a Christening was somebody that was awfy nice!

I like the Scandinavian connection too. another one I saw in Sweden was something like 'vi har flyttet' for we've flitted.

Nippy sweetie's a very useful expression.

apostropheuse thanks I get it now your gran sounds ace!

Oh she was a character Helen ! She never directly asked you to do anything. She would say things like - "You wouldn't go upstairs and get me my good coat out of the press in the big room. No, you wouldn't". I would then go and get the good coat lol!

Haha that’s brilliant! I bet she had a wee smile every time too

ooops I read Hen as Helen sorry!

Oh a definite twinkle in the eye! 😂

It’s ok, loads of folk do. I’m beginning to feel quite sorry for Helen

nocoriander I saw that one as well!

I wonder if there are any Swedish/Norwegian speakers on the thread who could tell me what the word for a bit of wood stuck in your hand is? That's got to be a Norse one too, no?

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.

He was clearly destined to be a politician then. All things to all men. Everyman.

No idea what the norwegian is but we called it a spale and stubborn ones would get a soap and sugar poultice applied.

It sounds rude to me.

Sweetie wife can be a woman. For instance when my jaw had returned from the dropped position to normal after first seeing Lorraine Kelly's show, I phoned my mum and asked how in hell that sweetie wife got her own show.

Wifie

I would say Lorraine Kelly is more like a fishwife, to be honest!

Hoor 😂 my grandad used to say “yer up an doon likes hoors knickers”

“Ya tart” and “wench” was a favourite too

That should read “ yer up and doon like a hoor’s knickers”

Ha Motheroffourdragons I inflict that one on my children every time we have eclairs or meringues.
'Is that an eclair or a meringue?'

toomuchtooold Google translate suggests “flis” in Norwegian which is disappointingly unlike skelf.
However this gives me the opportunity to regale you all with the poem for which I received FIRST PRIZE in my primary school’s annual Scottish poetry reciting competition (Primary Four I think).

The Skelf
“Ye’ve hurt yer fingur, pare wee man?
Yer pinky, dearie me.
Noo just you haud it that wye tae a get ma specs an see.
Why so ye huv, an there’s the skelf! No dinna greet nae mair. See, ma needle’s goat it oot, am sure that wisnae sair.
Yer fingur’s sair an aw? Ya rogue. Yer only kiddin’ on! Weel weel then, see, noo there ye go, red up the same as John.

I thank you. No idea who wrote that tweet nonsense, it definitely wasn’t Burns . I clearly made a convincing indulgent broad-accented Granny when I was nine. Ironic actually as we all spoke VERY nicely at home- my Dad was a radio newsreader!

PS toomuchtooold I’ll ask my FIL how he says splinter and see if he has any other Scottish Norwegian gems to share. They do say “kerke” for Church.

"bing" is the Scottish word for slag heap/hill.

"bingur" is the Icelandic for hills.

My favourite joke - customer to baker: is that a cake or a meringue
baker: no you're right enough.
It's mine a well Is it a Johnnie Beattie joke?