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Help! Scots slang to mean bad deal, rip off, etc.

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plunkplunkfizz · 18/05/2020 22:23

I’m trying to remember a word my father (who was Scottish) used to say to indicate something he’d bought was a bad deal. It’s one of those ones where I have no idea what the word was, sounded like, what it began with and so on, but I feel I’ll know it as soon as I see it.

Can anyone help me?

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IKEA888 · 18/05/2020 22:25

I'm Scottish glaswiegan but I can't think of anything!

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 18/05/2020 22:25

shonky?

FergusSingsTheBlues · 18/05/2020 22:26

Being bammed?

IKEA888 · 18/05/2020 22:26

all in can think of is if someone rips you off I'd say " do they think I can down the Clyde on a banana boat "
variations on this !

redsky75 · 18/05/2020 22:26

Swik? As in 'there are only 5 bags of crisps in the multipack instead of 6, I've been swikked'

plunkplunkfizz · 18/05/2020 22:27

No, it’s not shonky. It indicates more that something was overpriced or you get less than you expected than the quality was bad.

Imagine you think you’ve ordered a pack of six and only one item arrives. You’ve been...

I also feel like it might begin with S or F.

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ScrimpshawTheSecond · 18/05/2020 22:28

shafted?!

RockCrushesLizard · 18/05/2020 22:28

Swizzled?

LevoMental · 18/05/2020 22:29

Shafted?

TARSCOUT · 18/05/2020 22:29

Ripped off, scammed, shafted,

plunkplunkfizz · 18/05/2020 22:29

It’s swizzed!

Thank you redsky. You’ve jogged my memory with swikked. Three days this has been torturing me.

I was also thinking about simmet for vest and piece for sandwich the other day. Jeely piece.

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redsky75 · 18/05/2020 22:31

Smile So many good Scottish words

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 18/05/2020 22:31

Hooray!

I mean, I hope you haven't been swizzed, shafted or scammed. Smile

plunkplunkfizz · 18/05/2020 22:33

Here’s a good one: when the lockdown is over, I need to go to the coup.

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ShowOfHands · 18/05/2020 22:34

Swizz/swizzed is what my whole family says (English). I wonder if it's UK wide?

Indoctro · 18/05/2020 22:40

Skanked ,
Scunnered
Rippet
Rooked

Indoctro · 18/05/2020 22:41

Oh just noticed you have found it Smile

lovinglavidaloca · 18/05/2020 22:43

Badly needing a trip to the coup here too! Think they’re going to be busy for a few weeks

daisypond · 18/05/2020 22:44

That’s a word I use, or more often swizz as a noun - “it’s a swizz”. I’m from Yorkshire.

ssd · 18/05/2020 22:46

I've never heard of swizzed in my life. Take it he's not from Glasgow?

ssd · 18/05/2020 22:48

Shafted... aye

Pumped... definitely

daisypond · 18/05/2020 22:49

It’s UK wide, according to the dictionary. It’s developed from swindled.

BippityBoppity87 · 18/05/2020 22:51

Swizzed? Never heard of it, and I have family from both near Glasgow and Edinburgh. Is it a local thing?

plunkplunkfizz · 18/05/2020 22:52

Take it he's not from Glasgow?

Bridgeton.

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Danglingmod · 18/05/2020 22:53

Swizzed or swizzled is very common round here (Midlands).