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.

Blawin a hoolie

It is very windy

Juice for any cold liquid other than plain water, milk or alcohol

Fruit juice - Juice
Coke or any fizzy drink - Juice
Squash - Juice
Flavoured Water - Juice

Oot on the randan

A night out drinking/partying

I always thought "Dreicht" (sp) was drizzly damp hanging in the air rain.

Wifie

As in

See at wifie o'er ere
I canna stick her

Do you see that lady over there?
I do not like her

Every adult female here is a wifie, and every male is a mannie

Not heard for ages, but used to say syboes (pr sigh-bees) for spring onions

We always called them sigh-bees when i was growing up and i still do now😀

We talked about Bagging off with someone here in the East when I was growing up , but as teenagers usually just meant a snog (known as gnashing....) rather than sex. And colly buckies for piggy back. Plukes were spots. Pus was face and fu' o' woof and broken biscuit meant tipsy.

@GallusKat yes am from the east but my mother has a huge range of bizarre phrases for all occasions from all over.

@70isaLimitNotaTarget yes that's what dreich means to me.

Gie us a gam!

Plank - as in 'plank yerself here' or 'where did I plank that tenner?'

And a proverb translated from the Gaelic... I love it but don't get it:

"Better a lobster than no husband"

My mum is Scottish but I grew up in England and am still never sure if I’m going to get a raised eyebrow/blank expression when I say things like
Peely wally (pale/poorly)
Wabbit (knackered/tired)
Slitter (spill food down yourself)
Daidly (muslin/cloth)
Oxter (they mocked me so much at school when I’d never heard of an armpit)
Boak etc

I’m also a big fan of the rhyme with 3 crows sitting on a wall (which doesn’t work with an English accent AT ALL!)

Gie's a scoof o yer juice

May I have some of your drink please

Aww loved '3 craws' as a kid. My dad used to sing it with me.
My ds2 learned a version of it at primary when they learned about old scottish words and thier meanings. They did part thier p7 end of school presentation in local scots dialect only it was hilarious.

Just remembered a fav my dad used to say about someone who got things wrong/missed something

"He couldni hit a coo on the erse with a spade."

What about ‘oh ye canny shove yer granny off a bus’?

Did anyone else's parents call fizzy drinks 'ginger'?

MissEliza, not parents but my peers in Glasgow sometimes did (I'm in my early 40s but this was in the 90s). Used to confuse the hell out of me – I'd always think they were talking about ginger beer specifically.

To me, ginger is irn bru, only.

"Cos shes yer mammys mammy"

Hornygolloch = earwig

Just found out today that ‘snash’ is a Scottish word. Googled this after I used it (as I often do) and DH surprised me by using the phrase ‘which isn’t a word, but in any event...’ in his reply.

My mum always called spring onions 'cybies'.

We always went to the Alpine lorry on a Wednesday after school for ginger. None of it was actually ginger, but any fizzy drink is ginger to me!

'Away and rattle yer can' was a familiar saying from my gran as well as 'd'ye think ma heid buttons up the back?'

Oh and 'he couldnae find his arse wi both hauns an a map'.

One I hear quite regularly is 'Ach, get tae f#*k!'