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What is your favourite Scots word??

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Pruners · 14/07/2008 19:15

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NutterlyUts · 14/07/2008 21:45

I love fankle :D

amazonianadventure · 14/07/2008 21:49

oo i goat maself intae a awfy fankle

Lucewheel · 14/07/2008 21:50

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amazonianadventure · 14/07/2008 21:52

ma maw always says u luk like u goat a humf up ur back

PixelHerder · 14/07/2008 22:28

Crabbit

Besom

Hen (as in 'yarite hen?')

GentleOtter · 14/07/2008 22:30

lol at humfy backit

StressTeddy · 14/07/2008 22:32

My sil gave me 2 mugs for my Birthday a couple of years ago

1 said sassenach - sorry about spelling but meant English

and the 2nd said

eejit - idiot

I took this to mean that she thought I was an English Idiot

Oh, how I laughed at this gift. I was ditraught when they both broke at the same time in the dishwasher

schneebly · 14/07/2008 22:34

ye've a heid lik a stair heid

cali · 14/07/2008 22:35

Sasenach

Quine

Loon

Glaikit

wessexgirl · 14/07/2008 22:36

I like scunner, like dreich.

But when expat used the word 'drookit' in a post recently, I really fell in love. There is no better word for that thing!

cali · 14/07/2008 22:40

also like "am fair scunnered"

a favourite saying around these parts "gies us sum o' yer buckie"

louii · 14/07/2008 22:42

Chackit, as in "he lookes half chackit"

aGalChangedHerName · 14/07/2008 22:42

ROFL at this thread!!!

So funny, Canny think of anything else to add. Love FUD!!

aleene · 14/07/2008 22:44

Have we had besom?
As in "she's a right besom", not a compliment.

LackaDAISYcal · 14/07/2008 22:48

driech
drookit
wheen
baffies
peelywally a firm favourite
cowp....as in "this place is like a cowp" ie really untidy, rather than "to cowp"
carrawheekit (as in left handed)

DH thinks I make stuff up, and that these aren't real words. Or else he tries to say them and they just sound All Wrong coming out of the mouth of a yorkshireman

SoMuchToBits · 14/07/2008 22:52

Another one I like is "Bidey-in"

cooandtwo · 14/07/2008 22:53

Saltire, to me kowp means mess. eg 'your room's a kowp'.
Also like slitter (making mess) eg 'stop slittering your food all down you' and bunker (work top).

SoMuchToBits · 14/07/2008 22:54

My dh refers to the tip as the cowp, and the bin lorry is the scaffie van.

cooandtwo · 14/07/2008 22:54

'cowp' even.

kikidee · 14/07/2008 22:57

Weans
Motor (for a car) - we went for a hurl in the motor
chap the door
shoogly

cooandtwo · 14/07/2008 23:02

piece as in 'a piece on jam' (jam sandwich)

MintChocAddict · 14/07/2008 23:07

Joke
Man stands with his back to the fire
Woman - "Is that yer ayrshire bacon?"
Man - "Naw, it's ma hands am warmin'"

Love numpty, bawjaws and boggin.

cali · 14/07/2008 23:08

"hud yer wheesht"

what I want to say when dh(sasenach) picks me up for saying "amn't I"

cooandtwo · 14/07/2008 23:11

'ammar' (I am).

Joolyjoolyjoo · 14/07/2008 23:29

LOL at this thread! I love the patter. In our house DH is an east-coaster (pointy-heid) and I am a west-coaster (weegie), and there are a good few words and phrases that seem to be unique to one or other. My MIL calls shoes "yer shin" (?) and DH and his mates all seem to call each other "neebor" (neighbour)

"Humphy-backit" makes me laugh, because of a particular time my dad, to the mortification of my mum, told a joke about a humpback to a neighbour with a hump (he was unaware she had one, somehow!) Mum went through him like a dose of salts when she got him home. Two days later, she was in having coffee with said neighbour, and dad went looking for her. When he eventually found her, he exclaimed "Here you are!! I'm humphy-backit running after you!" Eejit!

But one of my favourite examples of Scots is the poem "Lament for a lost dinner ticket" which goes
See ma mammy? See ma dinner ticket?
Ah pirrit in ma poakit and she pirrit in ra washin machine!
See yon burnty up where the fire wis?
I only went tae eat ma poak a chips fur ma dinner
Anabigwaffledoon
the wummin said, "Ah ver near c'lapsed!
Just her heid and her wee wellies stickin oot!"
They said "What happened?"
On ma belly. N'a bed n'a hoaspital
Ah said "Ah pirrit in ma poakit and she pirrit in ra washin machine!"
They said "Is this child absolutely non-verbal?"
Ah said "Ma bum's sair" and went tae sleep

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