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.

Thanks Just*, I've just started listening to HB - great fun.

Where do you stay- where do you live.
Up the stair- upstairs
The now-now

its Clatty no R involved
Not in my neck of the woods.
Its clarty. (SE )

Gawn up the street for a message.
(Going to the shop for small bit of shopping)

Going to.the pictures. (Cinema)

Thick as mince.

Greetin or ballin (crying)

Gui sma (very small)

And loads already mentioned.

Clatty is dirty but clarted is covered in something dirty. Clarty??? That sounds English to me.

And it’s ‘it’s a sair fecht for a half loaf’, not ‘for half a loaf’.

Up and doon like the hoor’s drawers.

Ned-Glaswegian for chav.
Close-the hallway bit in flats, mainly old tenements.
Chute-slide, like at the play park
Shot-turn. "Its your shot on the chute next"
Clap-pat/stroke. "Clap the dog"

Clarty is said in NE England which us where I'm from, it means muddy.

'Stand at peace!' - usually to a fidgety child

'You gommerel!' - you dopey idiot (affectionate)

'Awa ben the hoose' - come into / through the House

'The morn's morning' - tomorrow morning

Beast - any big animal
Beastie - any little animal

'I'll skelp your dock!' - I'll smack your bum

You’re not as green as you’re cabbage looking!

Peely wally

A stookie

and DH always laughs when I call a drain a stank!!

brillo I had forgotten clap.

Supper at a chip shop- whatever and chips eg fish supper, haggis supper etc.
Sauce at chip shops in Edinburgh is like thinner, more vinegary brown, (broon) sauce, and its great.
White pudding- spiced oatmeal rolled into a sausage shaped and fried/grilled, usu ally for full breakfast but also available at the chippy as a supper.
Pizza crunch- battered and deep fried pizza.

Get tae fuck - go to fuck

Away an take yer face fur a shite - shut it

Wheesht - shhh

It's Baltic the noo/the day - it's cold just now/today

Bawbag - self explanatory

It's Jai, not jay. I'm a weegie. It's how I say Jai.

ilivin for 11 and therty for 30

Shooders for shoulders

Typical Glasgow/Glesga slang

The big light - main light in living room (not lamp)

Hunners-lots. Aye mate, a got hunners a money.

Heathcliff27 It's a rowie where I am!
Haddaway My grandpa used to say "Aw Josie!" instead of "Oh Jesus!".

I forgot about the young team and the fleetos. They always had hunners a honers

Aye doll al see ye later on

Aye hen a know

Deep fried mars bar

Dickensian so it's a thing then. I wonder who Josie was.

Haud yer wheesht Be quiet
Away ye and raffle yerself

Another one from my auld grannie

Och, your face in a tinny!

Lament for a lost dinner ticket is a classic.

MIL uses thrawn a lot - usually in relation to my eldest DS

How? (instead of Why? - think is short for How come?)
Do you think my head buttons up the back (do you think I am stupid)
Sparrows Fart (really early in the morning)
Long lie (lie in)
Where do you stay (where do you live)
One my mother used to reply when we complained that things weren't fair, "Neither's the hair on my legs"
I used to drive a "P-you-geot": folk down here drive P-eh-geots
Folk (instead of people)

My mission is to learn all of these to confuse/amaze my Scottish husband ! Thanks all !!

No it's 'clarty '

Get it right up ye.

I repeated this to an English colleague, and was horrified when he interpreted it to mean something sexual.