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?

Gutties are trainers where I am (near Glasgow) for my generation, but my parents would call what I call gym shoes gutties.

Yes it is! I learnt pieces from colleagues in the Glasgow office. Reading this post is making me realise how much of these I use daily and why my friends and family in England think I’ve picked up a lot of Scottish (despite being quite obviously English in Scotland)

Plimsolls where I grew up in the SE, moving to the SW as a teen they became daps which also covered trainers.

NE Scotland with the kids I think they were just called gym shoes. Bit disappointed that we weren’t asked to supply gutties now.

A barm cake here in Lancashire.

Gutties or 2 bob sliders for gym shoes
wains for kids

Gutties = yes (runners/sneakers)

Bumps= lifted up by arms and legs on your birthday

Messages for shopping

Don't be there til you are back for hurry up

Just mek om an chayse baps.

Clod-hoppers = clumsy feet. 🤣

East Midlands.

Cob = bap or bread roll.
Sweating cobs = perspiring profusely
Mardy bum
Jitty

I thought they were gym rubbers.

Spice - sweets
Ginnel (hard g) or ginnel oyl - passage between houses
Syling it darn - raining hard
Laiking - playing

South Yorkshire.

Ganzy for a jumper, I am from north west originally but don’t know anyone else who uses this so not sure where it’s from.

Nesh for someone who’s always cold

Ginnel for an alleyway

We used to say ‘skinges’ as kids when we were playing a giddy game and someone had had enough - like a safe word for kids

Coopies - chickens
monkey peas - woodlice
aquabob - icicle
bee liquor - mead
gollop - gulp
pismire - ant
scran - food

from Kent.

I love these. So many words for woodlice!

Soft shoes for playing games or in the gym at school were 'tackies'...Bucks, 1965-1978. My DH (from Cardiff) calls them 'daps'. I've always called a small orange fruit which is easy to peel a 'naatchi' but only recently realised that it's from S Africa (where my parents met). Does anyone else call children's knickers 'brookies'? I've never come across anyone else with this term.

Aye , loved ma gutties

Who had a jeeley peice ?

That's a "backie" near me

Fife, so not a Teuchter but on the East coast and not that far away from Falkirk :)

Nope, but sang about chucking jeely pieces from a twenty storey flat!

It would have been a piece on Jam here in Fife, but I wasn't allowed them anyway and had to eat stuff like a piece on tomato instead!

Started school life in Dunfermline!

Pumps where I'm from in NW. Also giving someone a lift on your bike is a seatie.

Gansey= yes for jumper

My Dad calls jumpers ‘ganzy’ and he is from the SE of Ireland. Never heard anyone else use it!

South Yorkshire.

Yes, knew that as soon as I saw spice= sweets.
Woolly coat = cardigan, from my Mum who was from Sheffield. With the emphasis on the woolly

Hooshtie - a lift on the back of a bike
Saftie - bread roll
Goonie - dressing gown
Coaties - gym shoes
Semet - vest
Ganzie - woolly jumper
Fancy piece - home bake