To ask if you know what gutties are?

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In mid Scotland, they're the local word for plimsoles or basic trainers. Everyone at school had gutties for PE.

What are your strange local words others haven't heard of or need explaining?

@Christmascracker0
"How" for "Why" is also used in Cornwall.

Spov. Means good.

Pillion isn’t a local word. Motorcycle riders have pillion passengers, as do horses riders etc

a person who travels in a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc. As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Finding it funny that you posted this now. I just heard the word for the first time yesterday from my Scottish husband (who I have been with for over 35 years).
I bought some rather nice designer ‘plimsoles’ to wear on holiday. Seems to be the fashion for women to wear at the moment. My husband hates my ‘gutties’. He thinks I look 14! (I wish). 🤣

I use gutties e too, but we are local to you.

bunker for worktop.
jobby for poo
jobby catchers for joggies with elastic cuffs

We say that here (home counties) too

Pillion would be on the back of a motorbike.
Those shoes worn for pe were either pumps or plimsolls.

We have cheeselogs here as a regional word.

Gutties are Daps where I am.
Woodlouse are "Gramfer Gravies"
Walking slowly is "trundling"

Backie == Croggy

Sand shoes is common in the north east (or Northumberland at least). Usually a black canvas style shoe with the elasticated bit in the middle but extended to include the basic white laced up plimsoll style.

I like to confuse DH with my usage of the word spelk. Such as “I have a spelk in my finger from that piece of wood, could you pass me those tweezers”

When I was a child in London, we had plimsolls. Moved to Bedfordshire as a child to be told they were pumps.

Gutties or sandshoes - grew up in the west of Scotland. Now live near Edinburgh and asked DD, she said plimsoles. They don't wear them for PE though.

@PanettoneMoly That would be a skelf where I’m from.

I could be doing wae a wee piece the noo but um gettin ma dinner in a wee bit. Um up tae high doe!

Gutties is a catapult.

Plimsolls were called rubbers in 1970s East Lothians.

The word "backie"

Meaning to give someone a lift/ride on the back of your bike

In Dublin it was always a 'backer' or my personal favourite "Giz a jant on the back of yer bike!"

@PanettoneMoly I use those. Sandshoes and spelk also croggy for giving a lift on a bike

My DH who is a teessider calls plimsolls sandshoes, a splinter a "spell" wtf and a lift on a back a "tan" which makes sense , like tandem.
They also call a rope swing a tarzy.

I'm from NE but not as north as you.

The wood in finger is a skelf in Scotland

We used to say "spell" for a splinter.

I’m west central and we called them gym shoes when I was wee, my wee girl calls them gym shoes too, but my parents call them gutties. I’m in my early thirties.

I’m in the south west so call plimsolls daps and keep them in a dap bag. Wood lice are crawly bakers.
If the snow settles and doesn’t melt then it pitches.

I'm Central Scotland, but they were sandshoes where I lived.

Same here - I think it's mostly a south west and South Wales idiom. My parents who were northerners called them 'pumps' but they were daps at school.

You could 'get the dap' - i.e. get beaten with it if you were naughty, and on your birthday you would be dragged by your mates to the headmaster who would give you a token 'dap' on your bum for each year of your age! Imagine that happening now 😁

West Scotland here and where I am only the chavs call trainers gutties

The birthday bum kicks were called the “bumps” here

I’ve lived in Scotland for years only ever heard plimsolls referred to as sand shoes. Didn’t think it stretched as far as trainers though!

surely you mean Ned’s?