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.

Are you a Caithnesian katedotness ?

Ah reading on, it seems you are.

toaty = wee

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

Daps.

Baffies are slippers?

ashet - china serving dish (from the French assiette)
tassie - cup (from the French tasse)
a gowk - a clumsy, hapless person
the simmerdim - when it doesn't quite get dark in the summertime in the Far North
flyting - scolding
the well - meaning the tap
A stoushie might escalate into a stramash.

Whoever it was above said: "He thinks he's Erchie."
Do you know the addition "...but he's only Erchies dowg." ?
And does anyone know who Erchie was?

In Caithness people talk about tying lacers (not laces) and also "tie"
buttons and zips.

boygie and laskie for boy and girl

Wasn’t Erchie a jack-the-lad? Someone a bit up his own airse?

I love all variations of "Did ye, aye?" to be fair.....

Im away on holiday soon "Are ye, aye?"

Sandra won the lottery "Did she, aye?"

I love X/Y/Z "Do ye, aye?"

Oh I've been to New York too"Have ye, aye?"

Moira has 5 weans "Has she, aye?"

Such lazy, easy sarcasm for all occasions, usually to wind someone up

Gym shoes = san’ies

Shoelaces - ‘pints’ apparently. But to my knowledge only ever appear in the phrase ‘Yer pint’s louz’ (Your shoelaces are undone.)

You get a poke of chips here. Hadn’t heard of a pokey hat before. So many regional variations, love it!

Lacers in Aberdeen too.

I got my new car and thought I was Erchie.

To give him his full name Erchie Pluff

Wonder who the original Erchie was ... Archibald Simpson maybe?

Baffies or Baffs are slippers in Aberdeen.

I mine on bidie-ins...nivir hear aboot’m now.

Trousers are bricks in Aberdeen not breeks

“Hemmin yer wakkin like ye’ve shit yer bricks, min”

We’d say bidie innies here. Folk would speak of them when I was young, but I’ve not heard it much unless in jest this last 15 years or so

“In Caithness people talk about tying lacers (not laces) and also "tie"
buttons and zips.

boygie and laskie for boy and girl”

Never trust that skorrie-dancers.

And I’d like to clarify that I am not and never have been a Backsider.

LuckDiamond

My granny when spikkin aboot someone who was getting above himself

"He fair thoct he wis Erchie, an him only Erchie's dog"

"Smacherie* - Sweeties

Also used as an insult about a woman's jewellery,

"Look at at damey, wi a at smacherie on her"

"Gype" - Fool
"Gypit" - Silly

"Ill trickit" - Mischievous/Naughty

"Thon bairn's gey ill trickit"

That child is very naughty

Am Scottish but live in England, loving hearing all these well known words again. Slippers are baffies in Scotland and if you have a spot on your face we used to call it a plook.

Fluffy there used to be a greengrocer's near me called "Yer On Tae Plums". 😂 That joke never got old.

Willow "put wood in t' 'ole" is Yorkshire.

Its also a Scottish 'saying''. My gp and dad said it all thier lives and we have no connections with Yorkshire 😀

Gallus.

"he's right gallus..." bravado, swaggering, full of himself, brazen

"it wis gallus..." brilliant, amazing, you'll never forget it.