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!

Edinburgher here. "Clapping the dog" used all my life.

My S-il wets himself when I call my Dd2 " yer a wee jobbie". He's from the south, and his take on my accent is hilarious.

Squint is a word, but I'd say 'squinty' is Scottish. We even named a bridge it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Arc

Heehaw is Scottish rhyming slang for fuck aw, as in doing fuck all... ie nothing

(We don't all speak like that btw )

Oh another thing that took me a while to get my head round was "where do you stay?" Instead of "where do you live?"

Also "round your bit" = "in the same area as you".

I often get asked when out walking my dog of someone can clap her. Love it
Also loved the horror at a party when a guest sat on my friends “bunker”, it was considered the height of rudeness

Ah well, Glasgow funeral and Edinburgh wedding etc. They're no fun over there.

Haw! Less of that. I’m an Edinburgher (though I’ve lived in Glasgow for five years - weegie DH ).

Is ‘ben’ a thing everywhere in Scotland? My granny says ‘come awa ben the kitchen’.

Ben's a teuchter word.

Teuchter here meaning anyone who doesn't come from Glasgow

I say ben, as in “go ben the room” to the bairns. I’m an edinbugger transplanted to the west where it’s cheaper

My English colleagues were somewhat flummoxed when I referred to our head teacher's bidie-in last night. (Edinburgh native and we clap dogs too). Chumming for messages is an alien concept now that we are in Yorkshire.

London, and I say “the big light”. I also understood heehaw but that may be from Scottish friends.

Ah my mum called DP my “bidie in” she said it with a cat’s bum face too

Means she does nowt much.

Oh I love bidie in It can only be said with a cat's bum face and raised eyebrows. Very pointed.

I have no idea what all this means but I love it

Does anyone outside Scotland say 'beat it' as in Do one, go away, leave me alone?

Doesn’t everyone say the big light? What else would you call it?

I had forgotten that I always used to call the hallway the lobby. I remember when I started to call it the hallway it felt really strange and posh. I don’t think I realised where the word came from, I just thought it must be a really common word so I tried to use hallway as that’s what people around me were then saying.

yes but im also Scottish. Fantastic phrase

The Aberdeen shoe shop, "fit fit fits fit fit "

'Beereetittttt' must be said quickly and with urgency.

'Beat it wee man' said affectionately to mildly annoying young nephew when you want 5mins peace

This is hilarious.

Clap the dog?

‘Heehaw’ when I saw the the thread I thought it was a sex move. (As in someone overheard their teenager saying ‘she does heehaw’)

I’ve never heard of anything here only the ‘big light’

Och Bobble was she looking a wee bit glakit (sp?) at the doing of hee-haw?

Working in an Edinburgh restaurant as a (Glaswegian) student, I once told a new English member of staff to steep the cloths we had used to wipe tables.
I think she may still be standing there with a glaikit look on her coupon..

Tennents did/do an alcohol free beer, IIRC, called Heehaw.

I love to steep the pots (DH sees it as an excuse for me to leave them for him. I'd never be so calculating... )

I had no idea clapping the dog was a Scottish thing! Though my husband was fairly flummoxed the first time I said it but he’s from South Africa so I thought it was him.