What is your favourite Scots word??

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bentneck waves the length of the river tay to gentleotter...

Trying again to create a link to explain the difference between a snottir and a doolee!!

www.dundonianforbeginners.co.uk/snottir.htm

bogey - not sure if it is scottish but not heard anyone else down here use it.
poke- as in poke of chips.

Agree with the "where do you stay" not being understood here. Also the "what age are you" is not understood, but rather "how old are you".

Haven't read whole thread but dh calls the dcs 'great cuddydooks' when they do something daft.

My dc both have their playpieces in their bags for tomorrow's school break

Can't believe I missed this thread!!

My dh is a billingual with his second language being Dutch, so I have learned a fair bit of it over the years. I am STILL amazed every time I come across a word that I instantly know the meaning of because it's the same as we say here.

Pink for pinkie
Kerk for kirk
Broek (pronounced brook) for breeks

erm can't think of any more, but I promise you there are loads!!

DS is so funny, he is staring to speak about doing a tollie and wearing baffies and a goonie and breeks.

Muckle = Massive

Sorry, haven't read the whole thread, but has anyone said "peely wally", which is my all time favourite. My mother (who is not Scottish but was brought up there) used to say it about us when we were little and off colour.

I think it means "like a peeled willow stick", so all thin and pale. DH and I often use it as an evocative, under the weather phrase - love it!

Hmm, I thought it was to do with wally, being china, you know like a wally close in glasgow, or wally dugs on the mantle piece.

Will google and get back to you!

I can't find any sort of official dictionary definition, but quite a lot on google to suggest that it is what I said in my last post.

Hope that hasn't spoiled it for you!!

Has anyone mentioned footerin'? It was my blog post title yesterday

scotitsh
id say
scots soudns very sean connery

Oh yes, footerin is a great word.

Believe that comes from the french faire foutre

Has anyone bought Maw Broon's cookbook? I got it for Christmas last year, love it!!!
Sorry mawbroon, came back to this thread and your post made me remember!

LOL Manky, I saw at the time that it got slammed by the nutritionists. I was most offended

Lol, the book brought memories of tea at my grandmas! Not exactly the healthiest of food, but very tasty!

Love 'dreich'
I.e to be miserable, the weather is 'dreich'.

gs, I love pookey hats.
God I love that.
Both my parents are from dumfries.

I love "driech" - althugh I don't love the fact that that is how the eather has been all summer

"thole" is another good one.

I like the word skelf.

I was brought up to "talk properly" without using any of these words, but somewhere along the line, many of them have slipped in and ds is picking them up.

wheech!

Loup.

as in "he louped over the fence"

My grandma was from Aberdeen and used to talk about "puttin the kettly on for a cuppie"

Hadn't heard cuppie for ages, until I met nailpolish

Cludgie is my personal favourite as in "where's yer cludgie hen?", as in bog, as in loo, as in toilet.

I love all these words! Mawbroon, my grannie still says "aw hen, look at you, y'look done in, come away in and have a cuppie tea". LOVE IT!!!

Anyone heard of loupin? (sp? lowpin? pronounced like 'cow') As in "his hair was loupin", meaning it was manky dirty.

Steaming?

I didn't realise 'jobbie' was a Scottish saying. DP always says it. He's been living in Scotland too long!

'Back of ', for basically saying after that time. 'Back of 9' = after 9.

I hate being called 'hen'. Do I have feathers? Do I cluck?

I've just seen a horny golloch in the garden