What is your favourite Scots word??

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don't know if it's been mentioned already, but I was reminded of semmit earlier.

piece applied equally to sandwich or whole packed lunch where i grew up; my dad had his piece-box that he took to work everyday.

our breaktime snack was always referred to as your liefpiece. Maybe came from relief???

dreich - it often is here
piece - for sandwich
grate- for crying

keach

fimbo great link

Aye! go boil yer heed is one I use often lol

Gallus

ye gallus wee bisum

wabbit - exhausted, out of breath
(as in 'playin' wi' thae weans has gote me wabbit')

im feeling a bit wabbit myself and a bitty scunnered after particularly busy day

everyone has problems on a friday afternoon,gonnae gies a break i gurned

We have been up to our oxters in glar the day.
I'm clattered in sharn and fair fooshionless now.

My personal favourite is carnaptious (bad-tempered).

Beastie = e.g. bug, insect
Shoogly, as in your jaikit's on a shoogly peg, pal! - look out for your P45 in the post.
Boggin' = thoroughly unpleasant
Bowfin' = utterly repellent

This thread has been a real trip down memory lane - for me and dh both.

Thrawn ie stubborn

i made a film family vidjo called gallus once quite a laugh ..subtitled this tramp as mad sister's bf! even she laughed i heard!

had one the other day and i cant think of it now you bampots!

but dont know fash is it west or east coast or north?

ds says shoogle to his pals!

gaunie no dae that..

anyone watching Still Game at the moment? on telly very funny esp for expats from scotland like myself

aye, go bile yer heid

keach pd?
keich no? or do you mean quiche?

gregory pecks (specs)
parliamo a glasgow, stanley Baxter anyone?
genius i love him
big pals with kenny williams who i adored too

This is brilliant - have been in England far too long so it's lovely to think of all these words again. Quite sad to think if we stay in England the DC won't learn all these, though being from Fife, I often come out with things DH (from just across the Forth Bridge) thinks I've made up!

Some of these may have been done already:

• 'daein yer messages'
• bairn (or wean if you live in the West)
• scunnered
• ashet for a plate
• lumb for chimney
• reek as in smoke or as in reekin' meaning smelly

Lived in Glasgow for a few years as a student and used to work in McDonald's Sauchiehall St. It confused me no end at first when people would come in and say 'geez a ginger hen'.

My faither called us his chucky stanes - weans|
Crabbit
Gallus besom
boak - be sick
fud - a total classic
guddle - muck about in water
dunderheid - dafty
scunnered - tired
stolen from a Still Game episode - faeachiyi - from each of you in a ned glaswegian accent.

Sorry to resurrect but I've one more.

Not really a Scottish word but Scottish usage of and my Mum used to hate it - "mobbed".

As in: "Och, town was mobbed today."

gscrym mentioned way back on page 2 about a spider poem

I think this might be the one

Ode Tae a Spider

by Sheena Blackhall

Hairy feet, hairy feet,
Foo hae ye hidden,
Richt ba ma plug-hole,
Ye clarty wee midden,

Hairy feet, hairy feet,
Out the cat flat!
Or I'll dunt ye,
and dunk ye,
and turn on the tap.

Mr Rollmops here, our twins were known as "The Bairns" from the moment we knew they were on their way. Guess my home town

A favourite expression is "A'hm up tae high do !"

Mrs Rollmops is a Nordic babe (hence the name) and she doesn't understand Rab C Nesbitt. I did teach her to cook me Cullen Skink though

Mr Rollmops am I right in thinking Falkirk? or Fawkurk as the locals say it?

Bahookie!

cundie...drain at the side of a road...

But do you know the difference between a 'snottir' and a 'doolee'???

Try this webpage for some great words.

www.dundonianforbeginners.co.uk/snottir.htm

Enjoy!!