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.

ginger has to be said very fast and like gn-ja

When we moved back and dh worked in Stonehaven he was horrified when someone said "Ah'm awa' fur ma denner wi' a fancy piece" having met the man's wife.
Fancy piece is a lot less adulterous in NE Scotland and a lot more nice cake :o

And I do not know "switchies" mawbroon . Do you know jamp ..as in past tense of jump?

My Aussie ex once refused to go and ask NDN for a 'Wee toty spanner' as he refused to believe there was such a unit of size.

Graphista do your colleagues know the difference between the wean being peely wally or jist kinna wabbit?

oh yes, the juice thing...even I don't understand that

there's "a cuppie" covering tea or coffee
"ginger" for fizzy stuff
"juice" for anything and everything not tea/coffee/alcoholic

I wonder if ginger is west of scotland and juice is more east since they think they are posher than the Glasgae folks. :o

Our cuddy code was a caulie buckie.

Bidey in for a partner you are not married to

Also came across someone using jamp the other day. I.e. I jamp off the wall. Not heard that in years, is it uniquely Scottish?

@FrancisCrawford We called hopscotch ‘paldies’ and use coorie in a lot.

And I love the PP’s explanation earlier between ‘no awfy weel’ And ‘awfy no

My DM used to say ‘take no weel’ in reference to someone’s period starting.

Related is someone ‘expecting’ ie being pregnant and the question ‘when’s she better?’ relating to when someone is due. Think that one is dying out thankfully due to hormonal pregnant women me included snarling ‘I’m no ill’

Wain is just short for wee yin is it not?

My gran always used to say 'wheesht' to me and my brother when we were being noisy so I say that a lot. It irritates my kids though!
I love scunner as well to describe a truly irritating person.

'Come on, get off' to be said by the bus conductors in Glasgow meaning 'hurry up and get off the bus please'

Yesnto the juice thing too!! I never understood why my SIL asked if the kids wanted juice when she meant squash or any kind of soft drink, not actual ‘juice’!

My Grandmother liked to be a bit refined because she was not really from Glasgow. (although she stayed there most of her life) She thought it was a bit rude to say X is pregnant. She would always say "A lady in Waiting"

I think jamp is almost specific to Angus, and maybe not even that wide tbh
it's the past tense of jump, the children also say jamped, as a sort of emphasis? But jamped is not the first thing, they'd never say jamped before jamp!
so
Child:I jamp oot the windae

Me: You did what?
Child: I jamped!

Ooh , just remembered one of my Dad's ( Glasgow)

"I can speak polish"........CherryBlossomKiwi

"Wee Whalp" one of my GDad's (litlle pest)

Jamp is used in Caithness too.

Spellcheck is going mad on these words, I have to retype several times to get the correct spelling...

We used Jamp in Edinburgh growing up. I'm in Stirling shire now and heard it this week. Must be more widespread than you think. Didn't get away with saying it in my mum's hearing though... :)

"pure" as a measure of intensity

"Ah wis ragin'" v "Ah wis pure ragin'"

Love that.

Does anyone remember losing your "VL"?

Grucius yes I do.

He widnae say shite fur a shillin

'I wouldnae go hame tae her wi a bust paypacket'

To describe a particularly fearsome woman.

"Graphista do your colleagues know the difference between the wean being peely wally or jist kinna wabbit?" It's not me that currently works in healthcare I was responding to a pp.

However, I did in England and had to watch what I said.

We (dd and I and seems to be the case around here) seem to use "juice" more than "ginger" now, "ginger" seems to be more older folk. And yea "juice" means any cold soft drink EXCEPT fresh juice when you must say "fresh juice" tis the law 😂