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 was wátching the Chase yesterday, the wifie didnae know what a Forfar Bridie wiz!
I didn't know that was a Scottish name.

There used to be a boat that took sewage sludge from Edinburgh ( from Leith docks I believe) out into the Forth to dump. It was called the Gardyloo. Taken from the French Gardez L'eau- "watch oot for the water " as folk chucked chamber pots contents or buckets of water out windows into the streets.

Street cleaners used to be scaffies
A piece = sandwich, mind the jeely piece song? Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a 20 storey flat...
Clootie = a cloth like in clootie dumpling ( a pudding steamed in muslin) or the Clootie Well where folks have left strips of cloth in trees near water.
Scunner= intense dislike
Stoorie=dusty
Reekin= smelling, or smokey Edinburgh was Auld Reekie before smoke control

I mind playing peevers a lot as a bairn. There would always be some wifie didn't like the chalk marks on the pavement and come out and chuck water over it.

Mind the saying all fur coat and nae knickers?
Or she has her curtains pattern tae the ootside? Someone who shows off , a bit like some modern instagrammers or youtubers

A bidie in. A partner, part f a couple living together but not married.

My two year old saw me eating a sandwich the other day and said “Mummy eating piece” I was delighted (we live in England).
He was actually saying “piece of bread”, unsurprisingly as I don’t say “piece” for sandwich myself normally, but I was delighted with his inadvertent Scottishness. I suppose that’s where the expression comes from to begin with.

Anybody ever seen the green in Cambridge called Christ's Pieces? I worked in Cambridge for a few years and I always wanted to put a box of sandwiches on the top of the sign and take a photo but this was in the days before Instagram so I don't know what I would have done with it then

Was it a jeely peece? My dad lived a raspberry jam sandwich. Which he called his jeely peece.

He remembered his mum used to leave these for the kids' lunch when she went swanning off the shops. They would eat them sitting on the pavement outside their house or he would sit with his mates outside their tennament block.

We said 'leaf piece' for our sandwich at playtime. Not sure why 'leaf'; maybe it was originally 'leave'?

Fabulous thread

I heard jaiket used in Burniston the other day. My aunt used to say 'jaisket'

All this talk of pieces reminds me of silage and harvest time when my mother used to send a basket of pieces and cakes out to the field at 3 o'clock. We had cooked breakfast, oor ten o'clock, cooked dinner (3 courses), oor 3 o'clock, cooked tea and then supper. Nobody was fat!

We were clearly in transition in our house growing up because we said “jam piece” rather than jeely piece (jeely of course v much like the American “jelly”, I wonder if it was Scots/Irish immigrants who took the word there? My Mum made the most amazing raspberry jam, we used to love going to the pick your own every year to get the rasps)

I am of course very familiar with the “jeely piece song” though, which has been mentioned upthread. That and “MacPherson’s Skyscraper” were how I learned about scottish social history!

toomuchtooold yes . There is also Parker’s Piece, though obviously Christ’s Pieces have more potential for comedy. I guess that “Christ’s Pieces” could be the Scottish name for the loaves and fishes parable? 😀

Maybe jeely piece is west of Scotland? We said jam or jammy piece too.

Glasgow.

I'm from Northern Ireland but an area which is big on Ulster Scots so a lot of people think I'm Scottish!! Even some Scottish people! Pieces were all the rage at school :)

Yes, great phrase! I think we need to integrate more of this into day to day spoken English. First up how about bawbag and baffies (obv not in the same sentence mind you) :-)

Almost never in the same sentence! 😂

If your bawbag's in your baffies, you're wearing them wrong! 😂

PhilomenaButterfly bahaha that made me chuckle!

What about a jerkin? My dad still says that. Didn't think I spoke as much Scots as I obviously do, canny beat it.

HeeHaw means “nothing” or very little mainly in central Scotland probably best used in “text speak” , oh and it’s a braying donkey also 🤫😊

Great thread
I remember being taught the hierarchy of being unwell here
Weel
Nae weel
Nae affa weel
Affa nae well
Affa
Deid

Also learned yokie dowp after moving up north

Theswaggy 😂 I just translated that for DD. I love "Deid". 😂

I remember one from my Glaswegian XFIL: God is good and the de'ils no' bad.

If I’m having a lazy day in the house I call it a donkey day - because I do heehaw

My gran was fond of calling us (grandchildren) a ‘stupid looking edjit’ if we done something particularly silly.

A few others I’m sure are only used in Scotland are:

-Wallys - false teeth
-Bogin/ Bowfin- disgusting
-A Stank - a drain on the ground (that might be a Glasgow thing only)
-Ginger - any type of fizzy drink

smash is also known as shrapnel here in Glasgow

I am hoping after "clapping the dug" the OP does " ben the loaby" lol