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Do you know what is meant by 'she does heehaw?'

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ILoveMyBobbleHat · 14/09/2018 18:35

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!

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toomuchtooold · 20/09/2018 20:34

@JessieMcJessie I've just started watching a Danish drama (Rita) about a schoolteacher and she walked into her class and it was like "good morning everyone" in the subtitles and I heard it - Alex Salmond!

derxa · 20/09/2018 20:39

it was like "good morning everyone" in the subtitles and I heard it - Alex Salmond! Grin

PhilomenaButterfly · 20/09/2018 20:41

😂

derxa · 20/09/2018 20:54

I love the French Scottish words e.g ashet = assiette

2018SoFarSoGreat · 20/09/2018 21:00

Derxa me too. Cundie - Conduit - being my fave!

lexer · 20/09/2018 22:02

@derxa, thank you for reminding me of that one. Ashette (or however it's pronounced). My home economics teacher taught me that one.

lexer · 20/09/2018 22:03

however it's spelled I meant

JessieMcJessie · 20/09/2018 22:45

Ha ha toomuchtooold you won’t be able to stop images of Mr Salmond popping up in your mind every time you watch anything Scandinavian now! I might look that one up, haven’t seen a good Danish programme since Borgen.

JessieMcJessie · 20/09/2018 22:48

Yes, my Granny was always talking about ashets. “Fash” is another French origin Scots word, as in “dinnae fash yersel”.

PollyFlinderz · 21/09/2018 03:03

Oh my goodness. My favourite words within two posts of each other - ashets and cundies.

It’s just a few years ago that I bought my own ashets from a cookshop in Wales because of the memories I had of my mum and my granny with their ashets.

One of my daughters asked if she could bring a new colleague home for Christmas Day once because they were 1000’s of miles away from home. I said yes and on the day in walked this young man who spoke in the broadest Scottish accent I’d heard for many many years. It was the best Christmas present ever when he was telling me about his granny who’d brought him up and one day he’d peed her off so much she launched an ashet of stovies across the living room at him just as they were sitting down for their tea. I can still laugh about it in the most random of places when I realise the story’s just popped into my head again.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 21/09/2018 03:31

I know this thread is about Scottish phrases and words but I just wanted to say that one of my favourite "lifted" words from another country is the Irish "banjaxed". It''s just so emotive of something being completely buggered - I love it!

Gincompetent · 21/09/2018 07:22

DH called me a Dunderhied this morning... forgot about that one!

MrsFinkelstein · 21/09/2018 07:57

West Coast here, we say "messages" here, but that means just a few things: bread, milk, sugar etc (just enough to fit in a single shopping bag), "you pop down the street to get your messages".
Your messages is very different from doing your "big shop".

Shampaincharly · 21/09/2018 08:04

Gouping
( for pain )

TaighNamGastaOrt · 21/09/2018 10:23

North East here, has anyone mentioned Doric yet on this thread? havent read every post! I give you 'quine' and 'loon'!

My fave is 'craitur'!! oooh, or 'muckle'.. As in check oot that craitur wi the muckle lugs!!

And 'fiel'. As in 'that loon is awfy fiel, ken?'

some villages on the coast, its like another language altogether!

YeTalkShiteHen · 21/09/2018 11:26

Banjaxed is such a descriptive word. I love it!

WaxOnFeckOff · 21/09/2018 11:47

As an aside, I enjoyed Rita and Bonus Family is also worth a look. There is a little spin off from Rita about her friend but I won't embarrass myself trying to spell it.

JessieMcJessie · 21/09/2018 17:27

shampaincharly my Mum used to say “lowping” for pain as in “ma heid’s lowping!”. I wonder if that is the same as “gouping”.

JessieMcJessie · 21/09/2018 17:28

That was assuming that goup and loop/loup rhyme with coup (another good Scottish word!)

Shampaincharly · 21/09/2018 17:58

Yes , @JessieMcJessie .
I think it is the same .

Twirlstwirlstwirls · 21/09/2018 19:41

@TaighNamGastaOrt

Aye - I mentioned Doric last weekend I think (in relation to ‘Scotland the What?’) and recognise the word feil - as in feil gink (sp?)

Galvantula · 21/09/2018 22:14

My goonie was definitely my nightie too.

And our earwigs were forkietailies. 😆.

I always get annoyed when MS Word tells me outwith is wrong. What the fuck does it know?

We still talk about baffies and breeks and jaikets in this house.

Yogafailure · 22/09/2018 07:23

I told my probationer teacher yesterday that her class was "taking a len of her" which she didn't understand at all 🤣

SausageOnAFork · 22/09/2018 08:02

I heard jaiket used in Burniston the other day.
Now please don’t take this as me being rude but are words like jaiket and polis different pronunciations or actually different words?

WaxOnFeckOff · 22/09/2018 08:23

Just different pronunciation but so endemic in some areas that the poor kids learning to read and write must think they care learning a new language. They become bilingual :o