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.

snash, not smash. Bugger you, autocorrect!

“If you were as shitty as you are witty you’d be in a hell of a mess”

Forgot about that little gem, not sure if its a Scottish thing though

"shite in a poke!" is my cuss of choice.

Where I live a house coat or hoose coat is your dressing gown.

Not sure if this has been said upthread but putting something 'ben the press' means in the cupboard. And in our house the press was a specific big cupboard in the kitchen!

Glaikit
Dinni be a clert- don’t muck about (with food etc)
Rocket - as in she is a rocket (a bit volatile/crazy)
Dirty as a noun - as in Och he is a dirty (shags about)
Cunt - not one I use personally but the use of the c bomb as affection (he’s a good cunt eh)
Jakey- tramp
Oh Ya hoor sir - oh my goodness, that’s quite shocking

Kerry-cud - carrying someone on your back (cud being short for cuddie: horse)
baffies - slippers
Radge
Fud
Thrawn- Doric for stubborn
No the fu shung - not the full shilling

Furry boots ya fae?

Does anyone else understand "up the brae" as in, "he's up the brae"?

I've heard both clatty and clarty, but in different parts of the country. Perhaps the difference between west and east.

thighofrelief ...it's Markies, nae Marks (Aberdeen!)

definitely clarty for filthy with a very specific Angus variation of feechie ....maybe there's a lot of feechie bowfin' teuchters around the county?

Minging.
As in her house is minging.
Gie us a bosie, give me a cuddle.
Husband tells me I’m thrawn, or stubborn
Brought up in Glasgow now in the North East.
Know most of these loving seeing them all.
Ahin from husband and family as in behind.

My username of course!

Fizzog. DH just used that word. I love it. Also "drookit". I use that word quite often .

He will end up wi concrete Wellies - he will end up with concrete boots so that he will sink when he is thrown in the river.
One I find funny is two young men are walking towards each other on the pavement when they pass each other Johnny says Jimmy and Jimmy says Johnny. They say each others names! They don't stop, they barely look at each other They don't say Hello or Hi! Just say the other's name like an announcement! When two women meet on the street they chat for a long time any other woman coming along the road joins the conversation.
Hippens are nappies but that could be NE Scotland
Cludgie is a toilet usually an outside toilet on the stairs
Doon is down
I will take my hand off your jaw! Means I will slap your face
Kick up the bahooki is a kick on the backside.
So many sayings and methods of speech but they seem to be dying out now. It will be sad when no-one says them any more

Face like a well skelped babies arse

Manky - grubby

Winching - courting "When I was winchin' yer mutha" doesn't mean my Dad put her on a hoist

I called my DS "The Wean" , people at work thought his name was Wayne .

Love all of these.

You wee radge
Stop Nippin' me heed
Bonny lassie
I dinnae ken

The baby's got her jags the morn NOT jabs

Where do you stay? 10yrs living in England and I still ask this and get blank looks

Are you working on that yet? Meaning are you still doing that job

Navid in "Still Game"
"What did I get get for my birthday? Oh yes- Hee wrapped in Haw"

The Asda

Ones I use day to day
Greetin
Weans
Wee
Crabbit
Mingin
Jai to rhyme with eye, DD1 goes to school with a boy called Jai
Malky
Wheest

Oh aye, that'll be richt when a coo calves a cuddy.
Show us yer oxster (great word that)
Gives me the boak
Fit like (quine or loon)
Twa hoat pehs an an ingin ane ana
Haud yer wheesht

I would say clatty with no r, I also frequented clatty pats on occasion

My favourite has to be describing someone as a wee scrot (little scrotum) so descriptive!

Also love using 'squinty' when with English people.

Stenter - a prop for the washing line. That could be an aul yin though.

Skelly een - squinty eyes
Gaping maw - hanging open mouth

MsMightyTitanAndHerTroubadours

Yes to feechie! Very specific to a small area. I bet you know what the switchies are too! I get blank looks when I say either of these.

Clarty in my neck of the woods. Would never say clatty.

@GruciusMalfoy Is, "you've won a watch" Scottish? My DH says that all the time as in "Aye he thought he'd won a watch there" meaning he thought he'd struck lucky.

My favourite word is "fankle" as in "I've got mysel' in a right fankle" (got myself in a mess/muddle/guddle)

I like "Gies peace" = shut up

Shouting Haw! meaning Hey

My DH also says "good God in Govan" as an exclamation.

Flowerycurtain , I was going to say that...I’ve rarely heard it outside my own family’s. So useful for squabbling children or ignoring one. Yay!

If it daes nae guid it’ll dae nae hairm

Who will to Coupar mun to Coupar

Kenspeckle ( conspicuous, showy)

Ashet, for płatter
Press, for wardrobe