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?

Sneakers aka runners.

It's a backer in Dublin!

I also know what gutties are.

Pillion is the name for the back seat/person on any bike or scooter. Nor regional as far as I know.

Sand shoes here in North Tyneside. All the kids at the school I teach at have to have indoor plimsolls and change into them from their outdoor shoes. They all call them sand shoes.
As in… “Miss Bernadinetta, I can’t find my sand shoes!!” x 50 per day 😅

The older people in the village where I live (in Somerset), often call others "butt", as in " 'ere Ted pass us thit* spanner....cheers butt".

*Not a typo.

Daps (they were originally called Dunlop Athletic Plimsolls) where I'm from . Bristol area. We have the t shirt in local dialect too.

Cob!

Lobbie Dosser!

Ooh I love all the regional offerings for an alleyway. Ours is ‘ginnel’

Plimsolls are daps here.

I say bread roll; grew up in Ireland and moved to Australia as a teenager.

Guttie = gymshoe or trainer.
Baffies = slippers.
Goonie = dressing gown.
Neeburs = friends.
Dumps = birthday bum kicks.
Ootsider = the end piece of a loaf of bread.

Who can guess what part of Scotland I am from?

Who runs messages when getting a bun?

i’m currently up to my oxters making pieces for tomorrow

The north east? Aberdeenshire maybe?

I grew up in Northern Ireland in the 1950s where plimsolls were called gutties. We were told it’s because they were made originally from gutta percha a form of latex or rubber.

Somewhere choockter? 😂

Im guessing on the east coast, or maybe Falkirk.

We say “oakies” here

My mum used to say up to oxters - always assumed it was armpits?

In London, it's plimsols, but Scouser DH says pumps. I think pumps are something completely different, more like court shoes. And plimsols are not basic trainers, they are always canvas; the white, lace-up version are aka tennis shoes. Trainers have a different sort of sole.

I didn't know the word until I moved to Belfast, I grew up in England and always called them pumps

Heal of bread = end of the loaf

Gutties aren't trainers though?

Is glaikit used outside Scotland? That's my favourite insult. Means daft.

Boak....to puke