Favourite Scots sayings?

[ChiaraRimini]

Following on from the pronunciation thread (it's Jay btw)
Expat Scot here. Get funny looks from the Sassenachs if I say any of these. Any others?

It's a sair fecht for hauf a loaf

Dinnae fash yerself

Here's tae us wha's like us. Gey few and they're a' deid.

Sex in Morningside is what they deliver the coal in.

Fa yuse bide?
Where do you live?

Haud yer weesht.
Be quiet.

Ken.
Know (yuse ken Stevie Aye?)

Fit like?
How are you doing kind sir/madam?

When we moved south DS was forever being asked to “say something Scottish”. He eventually ran out of his stock Doric phrases and just made stuff up instead, not that anyone could tell the difference

Buteo

He should have tried purple burglar alarm

Lots of expessions that I’ve not heard since I was a child here. I’m originally from Moray but live down South now. A few of my favourites:

Michty me!

Teuchter

Glaiket

Buttery or Rowie

Clartu

• clarty

Half my family are from the west coast / Clyde area so they words and phrases are all still used in my family, although I get puzzled looks when I use them in England.

Peelywally - ill looking / pale
Oxters - armpits. I remover getting laughed at when I started secondary school. Didn’t know they were called armpits!
Baw heid - round face
Heid the baw - nutter
Snashters - snacks / sweets (this may be just Greenock)
Swally - alcoholic drink
juice - soft drink inc cordial
Skoosh - fizzy drink
In ma puff - in my life (as in never seen anything like it in my puff)
Knockin’ my pipe oot - hard work ( dad’s family all worked on shipyards)
clatty - dirty
Weesht - be quiet
Weans - children
Midden - dustbin but usually “cheeky wee midden” a cheeky child
Messages - shopping
Press - a cupboard
Piece - a sandwich
Greetin’ - crying
Blooter it - kick it hard (football)
How? - why?

I am enjoying reading this. My dad died a couple of years ago, and I can hear him saying a lot of these phrases!

I love ‘Dinnae ken yer arse fi yer elbow’.
And (this might just be my granny because it was one of her sayings “I’ll no argue wi ye but yer rang”

To someone in danger of being sacked/dumped: his coat's on a shoogly peg.

Oh and also...big jessie -
Hoachin’ - packed / crowded
Mind - remember
Jobby- has no one said that yet ha ha?

Did ye, aye?

Clive - snitch
Coupon - face
Hen - said to a woman
Keech- see also jobby

OP waves Also a Scot abroad (well, Manchester ) but as a Gleswegian lassie I have absolutely nae idea what you're saying

Are you from the East Coast?

EmperorTomatoRetchup
There was a lot of heuchty teuchters and furry boots involved

On reading this thread I’ve realised how many phrases I’ve picked up from so long in the NE (DH’s family hails from Fife so he’s always used a lot).

Where we are now there’s a firm of estate agents called Mansell McTaggart, every time we see one of their boards it leads to variations of “there’s been a murrrrderrr” in a strong Glasgow accent.

Was in a new garden centre today and saw some mugs with "Love you hunners" and "Give it laldy Grandad" on them.
Thought of this thread😀

Carnaptious = cantankerous. It just feels like it sounds, as in "she was eiwis a carnaptious auld besom" she was always a cantankerous old meddling woman.
I remember my English aunt visiting my gran and spilling her tea and my gran said, " aw hen, never mind, awa' ben the scullery, get a cloot, wring it oot under the well, come back and gie that a dicht!" My aunt just stared in confusion!
I love the regional variations in Scots, great to hear!

My gran used to say snashters, she was from Greenock originally

Anyone mentioned ‘winching’ as in courting?

My dad is from greenock...snashters is definitely a good one! He often calls me to say he's having a wee snashter 😂

he's having a wee snashter

Snashters, not to be confused with swadgers. A wee swadger would certainly brighten up his day though.

😂😂😂

The most bizarre and impossible to explain phrase has to be 'This is me since yesterday'. My Glaswegian great aunties were very fond of it. I know what they meant, I just can't explain it!

Bosies
Getting in a right fankle
Rowies (my mum uses them as packing material when she posts me things [big grin] )
Wheesht!
Right fine fly pieces
Being able to spik proper
Going tae the Copey tae get yir messages

I had “Duguid” incident at work the other day...

Oh! And being black affronted and interfechling!!

Foo ye daen?
Jist chavvin awa
Aye, nothin else fer it

How are you?
I'm fine
Yes, you just have to get on with it

Awa an bile yer heid!

Just shut up/go away etc

Izatnyaffa?

Isn't that awful?

Face like a bashed chuntie

Ugly/Miserable

Aberdonian here

Fit fit fits fits fit?

Which shoe fits which foot

At een on at een an at een on on at een

That one on that one and that one on that one