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!

When someone's bein a pure bawheed, and totally rippin yer knitting, I just lose the plot and tell them to "bolt ya rocket."

Big light is pretty universal, surely - even Peter Kay's used that one (put big light on)

The rest of these phrases - nope, never heard them before.

Barm-pot

I could have made a guess at steep. Things are described as 'steeped in history' etc but I'd say soak if it was a pot or pan.

It's called the big light in our house. My parents were from North Wales.

Is steep Scottish? Really?

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

Oh no, she's all there and back again. Excellent at looking busy without lifting a finger.

Anyone said 'drookit' yet?

Re Ben:
Tell Ben to come ben, if Ben dusnae come ben, tell Ben , ehl be ben to bring Ben ben.

Hod yur hoarses

Me and BFF were heading out once when we were about 14 and she had a very short skirt on and her Dad ordered her back up the stairs to get changed saying 'yer no wearing that pelmet out, you can see the toon and it's granny'

Clype. Verb and noun. As in don't clype or you're a wee clype.

I'd assume it means makes much noise but does nothing. A donkey really. We have one of them at work. In fact, they seem to be obligatory in the workforce. Who doesn't need a donkey?

I keep popping back on here for the entertainment

My husband will say haud yer wheesht! Like that one. And "am gonnee the fit-baw".

Where we live lots of people will drop "Ken" into conversation. Like

"di ye Ken?" = do you know.
"Ken"= no
"Ken"= know
"I ken the other day"= I remember the other day.
Or
"Ken" = (no meaning at all).

Also 'don't clype or you will get a clype around the ear'

My dad's comment on my teenage outfits was always 'hope you get the weather you're expecting'

Midden:
Your room is a Midden (untidy)
A Midden (rubbish tip)
Och, ya wee Midden! (You little monkey!)

I'm English but lived in Scotland and when someone asked if my cat liked a clap I was horrified. I thought they were going to hit him.

Bobblehat

And of course there are times when the same word means different things in different areas of Scotland .
Tadger
Todger
The first one means a moaning old git where I come from BUT apparently means the second one ( willy ) where I am now.

I say Haud yer Hoarses to my 4yr old all the time...purely because she shouts back "we don't have horses, we have dogs" as she has no idea what it means.

Shampain
I was just about to lower the tone with the classic 'bawbag' and you beat me to it

Boaby** - another word for tadger/todger

Scottish wummin here so know all of them. I live overseas so don't hear them often. LOVING this thread.

What about Winterdykes? I'm thinking it's a West of Scotland/Glaswegian thing as when I first met my Aberdonian DH he didn't have a clue what I meant

Ally bally
Ally bally bee

All together now...

Wheesht

I don't know what a winterdyke is.

Was rather horrified when my child came home from his educational establishment singing 'sitting on your mummy's knee'

Was it only a Scottish tradition that years and years ago you would put silver in the pram for newborns? I remember getting loads when I had my 1st in 1998 but nothing for my youngest 2 (age 4 and 6).