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?

Some Sussex ones, Slub means mud, Harkers means ears, Spake means spoken.

Please take a guess 😂

All terms I use and I'm central Scotland.

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Replied bang on 🙂

It’s amazing how hyper local Scottish accents are! It’s SO easy to work out. Maybe slightly scary in hindsight!

Yep!

Do people still say that??

I also use play piece as well as playtime. High school it was breaks.

Dinner time = lunch
Tea = Dinner

This did the rounds on fb recently. It's plimsolls/pumps. Or other regional variations.

I think the play piece thing is dying out, my daughters eyes roll out her head when I ask her what she wants for her play piece and tells me it’s just snack 😂

I'm afraid I haven't read through to see if anyone has said this, but I assume that's from gutta percha?

Love a bit of Saturday night etymology!

Who knows what a scrage is?

I haven't heard that word for years!

Mum (80) from Belfast used to call basic trainers gutties. She has been in Australia since late 1960's.

Grew up in central Scotland 80s/90s this was a what my parents called plimsoles for pe no idea where it comes from

Edinburgh - gym shoes
roll - no need to specify it’s bread.

Barry - brilliant
Radge - nutcase
Shotties - look out
Sleekit - sly
fache - to bother or annoy - Ah couldnae be fached, Dinnae fache me, hen.
close - alley
to go round the street for your messages - go out shopping
callycode - piggyback

Dundee

Ganzy=jumper
Baffies=slippers
Sannies=sandshoes=plimsolls
Cuddie = horse
Wiffie=woman
Cundie=drain
Orray=common
Affay orray =very common
A Plein ane an ingin and an a=a plain one and an onion one too
Piece=sandwich
Circle=roundabout
Braw=good

Could go on and on and on. Dh also Dundonian but haven't lived there for very many years. DC have trouble understanding us sometimes.

Most Scottish terms I have grasped from Viz magazine. They have a strip running over the last few years, called The Broon Windsors. They have terms such as “glaikit wee dobber” and “bawhairs” and “Stoatin! Kin I mooch it” - a satirical scene where King Charles is trying to cop a read of Harry’s new book without paying for it. Viz is published in Dundee, a city of publishing, computer games and the V&A museum.

This made me laugh - my middle dc does this... she must be part Scottish somehow!

I guessed what they were but would've called them pumps or sandshoes.
We have ginnels and snickets. Which aren't the same but used a bit interchangeably now.

Geansaí (pronounced ganzy) is the Irish language word for a jumper, so I assumed your version might have come from a gaelic language. Turns out I'm entirely wrong and both come from Guernsey!

toingaeilge.com/post/615673294767718400/etymology-geansa%C3%AD#:~:text=The%20Irish%20for%20a%20jumper,wool%20and%20their%20own%20variations.

Thought of some other favourites from the Dundee lexicon

Skunnered=sickened
Skelp=hit
Bahoockie=bum

Was oft used by DM in sentences

Em skunnered, if ye dinnea behave el skelp yer bahookie.

I think these are pretty universal in Scotland - we use all of them too!

I think pillion is the 'right' word, not a regional thing. It's been in the dictionary for eons and I've read it many times in (slightly) older books.

Skunnered=sickened

We say scundered in NI. Although it usually means embarrassed or mortified.

Gwli -an alleyway from one street to another.