'Scottish' words in other countries

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Inspired by a thread on here about apple and pear squash (aka as diluting juice North of the border), what other Scottish words or phrases have been met with blank looks?
For me, it was 'jotters' (books you jot things down in, so essentially exercise books) and 'gutties' (black plimsolls for primary school PE).
Any others? Been here so long I've probably forgotten most!

Ben the room
Means you’re in the next room

Scunnered - sick or nowadays fed up
Black affronted - outraged
High doh - up to ninety
Six and two threes - neither one way or the other
Siver - drain in the street
Sybies - spring onion

I was often accused of being ' awfey passremarkable' by an old aunt. Didn't realise that was a Scottish term until years later.

@Thecatsbutler that's better than being told by an old aunt that I was fairly pittin' on the beef I was 7 months pregnant

@Kitkatandcoffee

My husband says Quine for a girl Loon for a boy. He comes from the north east. I was brought up in Glasgow. I use words like sybees for spring onions Stank for a drain at the side of a road. Outsider my other half calls it a heel of a loaf. Still use going for the messages. We go out for a donder= walk Abean = above

In Fermanagh, where I grew up girls are cutties and boys are cubs. A walk is a dander so very similar.

[quote JenniferWooley]@Thecatsbutler that's better than being told by an old aunt that I was fairly pittin' on the beef I was 7 months pregnant[/quote]
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Ben the hoose. As in ' Granny wars meh baffies?' 'Ben the hoose hen,'

Meh best Dundonian there.

We don't do chip butties, my friend from Kent didn't believe me. He asked for one and was given a chapati. It's a chip roll!

Chute for slide - some people in the park in southern England thought my dc and I were swearing!!

Juice for all soft drinks.

House coat was def what granny wore to keep her dress clean, we always had dressing gowns!

Can anyone help me with this word ' the feeks '? When we were children we used to call like passing on germs ie He's got the the feeks .
My Husband lived in NI and children used the word there too .
I don't even know if the word is still used by children anymore .
Does anyone know the background of how this phrase came about , please ?

We used to tag someone and say 'you've got the jobby touch'
We were charming as children

The feechs could only be remedied with the cry off 'Feechs injection, life all over' This was a bit like getting your Covid jag. I say that something is 'feeghy' meaning mingin so I guess it must have its roots in dirt or germs or general clart

Although we played tig not tag

It's funny that even new names get pronounced differently in different parts of the country. When there was a fire in Belfast Primark a couple of years ago it was pronounced as Preemark on N.I. news but Primark on national news. I hadn't realised until then that the name had been interpreted differently. I'd only moved back to N.I. a short while before. What do they call it in Scotland?

Awa oot on the randan (or hoorin' and tourin') dolled up like Teenie far Troon

I say Preemark too

Teenie fae Troon

Or when slating someone referring to them as sna ba or Teenie Bash or saying they 'think they're Archie' if they have grand ideas

If anyone called you “hen” we used to say (under our breath)

If I’m a hen, then you’re a duck
I lay eggs and you lay muck!

If you were playing with a ball against a wall, it was “a wee stottie ball”
Raining heavily = stotting down
Stott your head off a wall

And the classic Scots rhyme:

Ally Bally, ally bally bee
Sitting on your mammies knee
Greeting for a wee bawbee
To buy some Couters candy.

Calling a whiny child 'Granny Mutchie'

I love Teeny Bash!
Haven’t heard that for years.

And of course, the classic “fur coat and name knickers”

Nae knickers, even

Autocorrect hates the guid Scots tung.

Saying someone looks like they've 'fallen aff a flittin' if they look a bit dishevelled

Having "a face like a horse in a huff" is one of my all time favourites!

@IamMummyhearmeROAR

Teenie fae Troon

Aw we use wee teenie fae Troon too! Noone down got that either!

Down south...

Come and give me a bosie