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What is your favourite Scots word??

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Pruners · 14/07/2008 19:15

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saltire · 14/07/2008 19:22

Glaikit is my favourite. No one down here knows what I mean
also drookit
cowp
ain
dreich

TrinityRhino · 14/07/2008 19:23

saltire
pleeease tell me what they all mean

I live in sclotland I have to know

I once really did ask who 'ken' was

gscrym · 14/07/2008 19:24

Foostie, boggin', braw are all good ones.

Will try to get that book, sounds pure dead magic (so it does).

expatinscotland · 14/07/2008 19:25

drookit is mine.

i like how DD1 says it.

also muckit.

DH still says 'ken'.

both girls say 'i canny'.

theboob · 14/07/2008 19:25

joby

gscrym · 14/07/2008 19:25

Ken is more a central scotland thing. Dh has said that in Glasgow and got funny looks.

bookswapper · 14/07/2008 19:25

sybie - spring onion

lum - chimney

siver - drain

expatinscotland · 14/07/2008 19:26

Dh says it here in the West Highlands. But he opens his mouth and anyone could tell he is East Coast. He has a very broad Edinburgh accent.

meep · 14/07/2008 19:28

oose

love joby too

meep · 14/07/2008 19:28

eejit!

ExterminAitch · 14/07/2008 19:29

i like amn't. 'i amn't doing that etc'. a cut above the more vernacular 'i umnae daein' that'.

i find myself writing it on here and i know i've outed myself as a jock.

expatinscotland · 14/07/2008 19:29

I've never lived in England, so sometimes don't realise a word a word is actually Scottish.

Until I use it on here .

Macdog · 14/07/2008 19:31

dreich
eejit
cowp
jubejube/joobjoob (sp?)
pokey hat

saltire · 14/07/2008 19:32

Trinity
Glaikit is, well a bit dim, blank expression on their face.
Drookit is soaking, be it from rain or a puddle
Cowp - if something has cowped ower, well it has fallen over
ain - own, as in my ain hame toon is in Dumfriesshire
dreich - usually used to describe dull, wet,cloudy dark days

DeeRiguer · 14/07/2008 19:32

umnae..class
oosey (as in jumper)
glaikit is an old favourtie
bahookie is king
wheesht as in haud it

there are tons its very expressive

gscrym · 14/07/2008 19:32

Baw faced, baw heided, baw jaws. There's mawkit, mingin'. My gran used to ask me to get something out the cupboard by saying 'away and get me that oot the lobby press.'

Macdog · 14/07/2008 19:32

lavvy
bawbag
mince (as in 'that's pure mince, so it is)
scunnered
ginger (for any soft drink)

Fadge · 14/07/2008 19:32

LMAO TrinityRhino - me too, was even worse as I knew a Ken and thought everyone was talking about him

I like peely walley ( sp??)

gscrym · 14/07/2008 19:33

I'd forgotton joob joobs and pokey hats.

sumomum · 14/07/2008 19:33

Lumber - date

Skunered - exhasted

expatinscotland · 14/07/2008 19:34

klaze.

there's actually a boutique called Klaze in Musselburgh and Porty.

saltire · 14/07/2008 19:34

I say, " I dinnae ken", sometimes, just to confuse the natives doon here
What annoys me, and I think it's a Galsgow/ West Coast thing is saying But at the end of everything. My cousin will say "we are going to devon for our holidays but", and I keep wanting to say "but what - but the car is broken,but the tent has a hole in it.

saltire · 14/07/2008 19:35

Oh aye expat, klaze is good, I say that

SirDigbyChickenCaesar · 14/07/2008 19:35

FUD.
best word ever.

Macdog · 14/07/2008 19:36

gallus
awa' an' bile yer heid
blether
feartie
bonnie
greetin'
dunt
haver
fankle
jings
crivvens
ge'in it laldy

....macdog's off on one here

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