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.

Just remembered one I used today!
"Yinceheerint" As in "You expect me to go to town yinceheerint?"
"You expect me to go to town just for that?"

Dreich, more than drizzly, dreary as well. February weather: grim, with no thought of spring.

Douce

Armoire. As in hang it in the.

Kist. As in you’ll be find it in the.

Some from my grandma

“ a blind man running for his life would nae notice”

And

“Ye’ll pass wi a push”

Said in response to “ do I look ok?” Or any perceived vanity or self esteem.

My pal this morning asked me for a swatch of my coffee. Swatch is a unit of measurement, slightly bigger than a mouthful but less than a mug.

We’d say clarty here (it wouldn’t mean muddy here, it would mean mingin)

A scoosh (like if you’ve forgotten your shower gel on a holiday, you’d ask your friend if you could have a ‘scoosh’ of there’s. A wee squirt)

A nippy wee sweetheart - really annoying woman, ‘stop nippin ma heid’. Only learnt this one when I moved south for Uni. Nippy meant fast where I was from.

Puggy - tummy

Puggies - what I grew up knowing as bandits (fruit machines is there name outwith Scotland I think?)

Just curious, has anyone ever said ‘och aye the noo’ ever in their lives? The only folk I’ve ever heard say it are English people who are ‘speaking scottish’

From a Glaswegian relative some years ago "Im so hungry I could eat a dead horse through a manky hanky". Need the accent for full effect.

By the way, dreich is one of the best words ever. Perfect for what it describes.

We used to say we were so hungry we could eat a scabby dug.

My pals and I used to know the excellent sketch "The Jobbie Wheecher" off by heart. Hungrity hungrity, munchity crunchity. Well worth a listen.

Semmit for vest

Breeks for trousers

Nippy sweetie for a wee drink

Nippy sweetie can also be a sharp-tongued woman.

Besom for someone with a bit of attitude - cheeky wee besom.

Shoogly for something unstable or wobbly. A shoogly chair.

I'm feeling a lot of Scots envy. They've got the best words, very descriptive.

Shoogly for something unstable or wobbly. A shoogly chair. Yer coat's on a shoogly peg

"How are ye the dae?"
"Hinging by a threed."

How are you today?
Stressed out!

My papa and dad always used 'breeks' and 'semmit' SweetestThing 😁

Bawbag.

"Hinging by a threed." or Jist hingin' thigither

I love ‘whit like the day?’ - especially when it’s said by my colleague who’s from the Philippines. Warms your heart :)

Coorie in and baw baw....

And errrr it's Jai. Hth...

That wean luks awfy skelpit.... Ur his lugs warm... (warm as in arm not warm as in swarm.)

My neighbour was a bit of a scandal, being a bidie in.

Are any of you posh enough to have a sit-ooterie?

Oh yes, my mum has a sit-ooterie. If I’m honest, I thought she had made this word up, I haven’t ever heard anyone else use it!

I wasn’t sure how widespread it was either!

slaters and forkytails .....woodlice and earwigs.

Sit-ooterie, yes, have heard that.

What about different dialect names for gym shoes - daps or baffies?

turnip = swede (big, orange)
'take' = catch or suffer from (she's taken the flu; he takes the depression)
wee poke = little bag

Have we had ' put his gas at a peep' yet? (= that will have stopped him /given him pause for thought/told him what's what)

Oh, and always 'sweeties', not 'sweets'.

DarlingNikita it used to confuse me too as a kid. Which reminds me. My step gf once offered me a pokey hat. I refused and was very upset when he brought dgm an ice cream cone!
I told someone today that it was a 'dreich' day and he thought it was hilarious. There's no better word to sum up that kind of weather! Everyone should have it in their vocabulary!