What is your favourite Scots word??

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a poke a' chips.

a friend of mine recently heard a salt-of-the-earth woman in Greggs (classy i know) asking for-

"aningininganaw"

She was immediately given some kind of pastry and left. My friend was perplexed for the rest of the day until finally she twigged-

"an onion one as well"

Bolt ya dafty

Ye ken whit I mean like?

DH was bemused by my cousin's speech at his 21st birthday party, he used that phrase every second sentence.

Braw

Bonnie

Glaikit

Driech

ma wee puddin'

shite

jacksie (he fell on his jacksie)

greetin' (She's aye greetin')

minging

heed instead of head

havering

mockit

loon meaning a man/boy (East Coast Highlands) always makes me giggle.

numpty
cludgie
mingin
wheesht
glaikit
condie-it's a drain where I'm from
clipe, dd2 is a terrible clipe
jings
crabbit
besom
peely wally
claurty

we also have a snib on our door
and I say "amn't I" and dh who is from Glasgow puts "but" at the end of sentences sometimes.

I love the way Scots say fantastic and brilliant, sends me weak at the knees when it's a hunky Scotsman saying it

mingin'
numpty
shoogly
awa' an bile yer heid
peely-wally
totie wee
wean
jobbie
crivens!
uisge-beatha
beastie
mince

and (I shouldn't because I'm fairly sure there is almost no one left in Scotland who ever says it, but..) Hoots! especially when DS is wearing my tam on his head - he's only 7mo so it looks a bit like Wee MacGreegor (one of my favourtie books as a child)

cooandtwo; the worktop was always a bunker when I was a lass. Is that a Fife thing?

lol at swooning over pronunciation. My frined os always trying to get me to say mirror cos it cracks her up! Said friend always refers to me as "scotch" as well, because she knows I'll always rise to the bait!

Am very disappointed though that my Edinburgh born and raised till he was 3, now 6 can't say loch etc properly, or roll his R's

and I was at uni with a lad from Dalkeith who I actually thought was called Ken for the first six months of vaguely knowing him. It was just his nickname as he used "ken" as a punctuation mark for everything!

oxters- armpits
greeting- crying
havering- having me on
glakit- glazed over/lights are on but no-ones in.
dreich- wet
claggy- minging
Face like a skelpt airse- my favourite!

Even now I say thinks that people think are odd, and I have been away from home 9 years.

Yes I think 'bunker' must be a Fife thing!.

Stocious was always my fave when at uni in Aberdeen.

'shoogle' (to shake).

"Safe home" Only ever said in Scotland. Lovely.

lol msl...I'd forgotten about face like a skelped arse.

My dad used to say as well...a face like a well worn baffie.

and i often use words only for them to be greeted with blank looks and then I have to expain.

I'm in the construction industry and there are a few Scottish phrases and words that aren't used in England, so that causes further confusion.

slapping - to knock a hole through a wall for a new opening (greeted with hoots of derision in england)
solum - the name given to the exposed surface under a suspended floor (no name in england)
declevities - tapered pieces of timber to provide a fall to a flat roof (firrings in England)
To name but a few.

is it quattro? no wonder people look at me strangely...

one more from me..

d'jee git a lumbar?

(did you manage to chat up a young lady sufficiently to kiss her with tongues?)

My scots tends to come out when i'm pissed off. Otherwise i keep it to myself. Down south i don't even say 'Aye' until i'm on the phone to family.

On one visit to the midwife with my husband a few years ago the midwife commented on how puffy i was looking. When she left the room to get something I turn to DH and said, 'Well you're nae a bonnie chookie yersel!'
DH PHSL. He loves it when i start channelling some old gripey scots woman.

My favourite word might not even be a scots word but might be a made up family word.
We used to say 'Beechs' (with a soft ch like in och). I meant beasties or a bit minging. ie. if you had a scab or something you might have the beechs.
anyone else use that one?

face like a torn scone
bourach
midden
clarty
slavers
slitter
jammy
manky
mingin
you can tell I've got three grubby wee boys!
My Wee Gran (I had Big Gran and Wee Gran, big Gran was about 5'2" and Wee Gran was 5'!) always called her kitchen the lobby as in "I'm away ben the lobby to get the teacakes).

I use safe home all the time and no-one has said anything. Maybe they are just ignoring me hoping I go away, or are used to my wee idioticsayingssyncracies by now

I always go right back into what DH calls "Fife-speak" when talking to my family on the phone!

my gran used to say "away ben" think it meant go to the living room/sitting room/other room. can anyone tell me?

dirty midden

Allytjd I had a wee gran and a big gran too (also of similar heights)

Ben the hoose. I think it just means in another room.

Another thing is the "big light".

I love the term to "thole" something - there isn't as good an expression in English.

Also like:
dreich
outwith

Don't use that many is with my (posh) accent, Glaswegian expressions just sound funny!

Lived in England for many years and found out the hard way that there were "English" terms I used that weren't standard, amongst others:

stay
messages
"up the way"/"down the way" when describing a trajectory
jotter

ben was used as in "in the other room",

"it's ben the back room"
or
"come away ben", meant lets go to the other room

My gran always referred to her (absolutely delicious) home-made potted meat as "potted heugh", pronounced with the gh as in loch

I remember having a conversation with an english person and her daughter on a train. I said to the daughter "what age are you?" and she didn't know what I meant - her mother then said "how old are you?".

Is this a scottish way of saying this or did she just not understand my accent?

I live in England people are always baffled when I used to say "where do you stay".