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?

Yes, sailing sandshoes- little striped elasticated insert in the front. Navy blue and white.

I think pillion is a word across the country.

Fife ...
Peely-wullie = pale and ill-looking
wheesht = shush / shut up
wynd = alleyway
wifie, wee wifie, hen = woman
buttery = bread roll with butter
give someone the bumps = on someone's birthday, pick them up by arms and legs (needs at least four people) and bump up and down the number of years old. Surely everyone knows this one?!

The bumps where I am in Scotland is when you kick somebody up the arse the number of years it is for there birthday 😂

Dundee

Hud yer wheest = be quiet
Peelie wallie = pale
Wynd or pend = alley
Buttery = Aberdeen roll
To give someone the bumps on their birthday would be to thump them on the back for every year
A high birdie fly, would be to pick some one up by the arms and legs and weach (swing) them, usually by two folk.

Reminds me of a joke - what's black and white and moans?

A nun with a monk on 😁

Two ways of explaining it 🤣

I'm South West and they're just plimsoles here, never heard of gutties and the whole of my paternal line is from Scotland!

I'm Scottish and have never heard the word 'gutties'

They're daps where I'm from (southwest).

My Dad ( Glasgow born, like Mum) always said "when your Mum and I were winching"

Means courting or dating .

Here we had -

Gutties - plimsolls
Runners - trainers
Piece - sandwich
Scullery - kitchen
Scundered - embarrassed
Icepole - icepop
Poke - ice cream
Pokivan - ice cream van
Pokiman - ice cream man
Slider - ice cream sandwich
Juice - any drink that isn't milk, water or alcohol
Headtheball - crazy
Banjaxed - very broken
Baltic/brassmonkeys - very cold
Hen - every female
Son - any male younger than you

TallyVan - ice cream van , Italian
Ginger- any soft drink with the exception of:
Clear - lemonade
Strike-cola
Irn Bru- well ..that's Irn Bru
The Asda
The Co-Op-er-ative

Are ye away up the road? / Is that you away haim noo? (are you going home?)

Back o'nine (sometime after nine o'clock but not as late as Hauf Past )

Ahm needin' (usually a small child expressing their wish to go to the toilet)

Oh and
dreich -damp drizzly

Dreichit - soaked

And my favourite - Manky . Means grubby

headtheball -nutcase
Manky -grubby/dirty/disgusting
butty jam - jam sandwich-
cob on - in a mood/ temper/
seeing his/her arse -having a moan/whinge
annoyed
snappin -lunchbox for school or work
dodi -babies dummy

my particular town in North wales where I now live. I always say butty instead of sandwich. Sounds weird otherwise ti me now

Manky -grubby/dirty/disgusting

Mingin'
Howlin'
Gies ye the dry boak
Boggin'

Giving someone "A hoo'er of a look"

press = wardrobe
creps = trainers
kecks = pants

'Yampy' means barmy in the Black Country. To 'gambole' means to do a forward roll.

Thran - means stubborn/mulishly obstinate.
Puley looking - sickly looking
Howl on - hold on
Aul doll - old doll = mother

I'm from Glasgow and lived in gutties during the school holidays. I still call them that !

kecks = pants

And breeks
Or drawers

Simmet'n'drawers is vest&pants

North East : we had Sand Shoes or plimsoles for PE in the Infants School, haven’t heard the term for years

East London area: rubbers ( gym shoes) and giving a seater ( someone on the back of your bike)

Growing up we would say 'How come?' meaning why

TallyVan - ice cream van , Italian

We would say we were going to the Tallies in the 60s ( the local cafe owned by an Italian with a scooshy coffee machine ) - I think there was economic hardship in Italy after the War and many moved abroad. The cafes are still here - though not sure they are still owned by Italians.