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!

Crabbit - Moany, cranky

Definitely one of my favourites.

Stooshie is a good one too - meaning a fight/argument.

Fankle - get in a knot (either hair or a temper)

Nope, never heard the expression. English/London area.

Heehaw features in a new Scotrail ad - wonder how many tourists are baffled by it?

Is a scramble throwing coins?
When I went to a wedding my bil thought we should throw coins out of the car

Anyone else say 'fart in a trance'?

My mum does but I prefer ‘like a fart on a windy day’

Probably against health and safety these days!

Yes , @LittleBookOfCalm

I've also heard of being a/ to 'Fanny in a tranny' but I guess you can't say that these days!

yy to ‘outwith’ too. I had no idea that was a Scottish word until a couple of years ago, I use it all the time.

Fart in a trance was a favourite of my history teacher!

I had no idea outwith was scottish!

Gutties (plimsoles).

I am really enjoying this thread. My mum was from Fife (although grew up in southern England) and lots of these phrases are just part of our family vernacular - I didn't know they were Scottishisms, as it were. No wonder my schoolmates used to look at me askance when I used some of them.

Peely-wally was one she'd use if we were under the weather.

Is a scramble throwing coins?

Yes LittleBook you throw them for the children gathered to see you get into the car.,

You should Google ' Dorich " lingo. It's amazing the similarities in this & some words scattered throughout Scandinavian countries. All my my mum's family come from Aberdeen. My gran moved to Edinburgh. She'd developed a strange mix of dorrich, gealic & lowland Scots. Sprinkle in the sink estate slang I heard growing up, and there you have it.

I live in England now. A few years ago I was travelling through Waverley station. A young girl started to speak to me. About mid-twenties. I couldn't place her accent. I'm usually quite good. I asked her and she said "Aberdonian". I replied " All my maternal relatives are from there, and you don't sound like them". It was just an observation, nothing more. She retorted "they must be really common then"!!! I was like WTAF. My flabber was well and truly gasted.

I thought it was something rude!

Dovering. As in lightly sleeping/ dozing. Weegie myself, but my Embra relations used in especially about babies.

I’m in Ireland and we ‘get messages’ too here. It wouldn’t be just groceries, it would be jobs too.

My sister is in Northern Ireland and Midden means fat there.

‘A fart in a trance’ has really made me laugh, what does that mean when it’s at home?

And bairns/weans for kids. Weans in Glasow. Bairns eastwatds.

For plimsoles we say coaty perks or coaties for short.

Skelf for a splinter. Bosey for a cuddle.

Snotters!

Someone acting like a fart in a trance is basically fanning around aimlessly or indecisively. Usually dawdling in front of me on a busy pavement like they have all the time on the world when am in a hurry.

'Getchaottatheway yer like a fart in a trance' fortunately I live in london so where people get the gist...

Aw lovely thread.
Anyone ever heard The morn's morn? tomorrow morning.
Fit ye dain? thats Aberdeen way. My family lived there for a while.
Dubs-puddles
My mum used bahookie and eejit and clype.
And in Edinburgh you have your fish supper with salt-n-sauce!