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!

Feeks, for germs

Yep and ‘gettin the messages’ try saying that to an English person lol.

When I went off to uni I had no idea how broad my accent was. My English workmate was completely baffled when I told him ‘I’m gan tae shew my breeks fan I git hame’ after he complained about the ill fitting staff uniform. Whenever I met anyone new in the Halls I’d ask ‘farraboot ye fae?’. My flat mate eventually asked why on earth I kept speaking about my furry boots.

DH uses heehaw regularly, not talking about me I hasten to add!

Reading this is use loads of these.

My favourites oxters, semmit, dreich, daichy, Shan...there's too many to list!

Love the thread but jeez, "the big light" IS NOT A THING!! Not the first time I've seen it referred to as some quirky Scottish phrase. It's just The. Big. Light. Like a PP said, what else would you call it?

Nothing?

Yep, steep they dishes means less scooring required.

Awa n bile yer heid always tickles me!

(I think that one with a Glasgow accent - not nearly as fun in any other)

It means nothing to me, in fact I thought it was a typo.

Then I wondered if it was some kind of sex nose or new sex act I would have to hope my dh didn't hear about and want to try, and involve pretending to like donkey noises.

Then I rtt and realised I was being assine :)
Never heard of it though.

Far d'ye bide? Is always one of my favs. When I moved to England I learned to stop calling women wifies as no one knew what I was on about. I did still use haud yer wheesht though

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

It's a common expression in the US.

Yup she does bugger all , ( I’m from Glasgow )

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She does nothing is how I've always understood it to mean. Scottish here too.

One thing that confused a mixed WhatsApp group was my friend saying "I'm poorless" it means to be killing yourself laughing. But the English were very lost with my friend's phrasing.

I remember my first day st school aged 8 when we moved to Aberdeen one of the girls in my class asking ‘far di yi bide?’ And me looking at them I eventually became fluent. Ds2 was born in Aberdeen and sometimes gets me to spend the day ‘talking aberdeen’ to him because he’s very proud of his heritage but is currently a well spoken Highlander.

Important distinction to be made between Heehaw (n) and Heehaw (v)

As a Fifer I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard anyone say “awa and bile yer heid” outside of Oor Wullie/people pretending to be Scottish.

A neighbour of mine used to always say Cloot for cloth, she is the only person I know who would say it. I didn't even know what she was on about until I asked her what it was.

Pieces: instead of sandwich.

Yep, I'm a Weegie so use it often.

Paddy I had silver put in my pram regularly and my D.C. are primary school age, so it’s not died out yet.

We also did a “scramble” at my wedding.

My favourite Scots word is “outwith” because I was in my late twenties working with a team of sassenachs before I realised that it was Scottish.

I had to explain going to the pictures to small English relatives too.

In the east we coach dogs and cats.

East of England that is.

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I think it just feels Scottish then, especially when followed by 'wee man'

One of our American friends loves saying 'I'm gonnae deep fry yer pizza, and cherge ye fur a boatle a irn bru' in his best (ahem) Scottish accent - used to make our DC about laughing every time

I'm originally from Glasgow, where when setting the table, we put out the knives and forks. But here in the east where I stay now, it's the forks and knives. Still jars ma lugs, every time I hear it.

Wallies - dentures.

A wee bit wabbit