What is your favourite Scots word??

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When we were bairns we used the cundies as base when playing games at school.

apparently a Dundee word but I was at school in Perthshire

Cundie: drain, manhole cover

dp and I saw a reg on a car at auction that ended with FUD, we thought immediately of neighbour who uses that word a fair bit to describe people.

I LOVE lots of Scots words and as Expat pointed out don't realise that many are not actually used in England. I was born in Africa but have lived over 3/4 of my life in Scotland.

ExPIL would teach me loads of words.... but they sound funny coming out of my mouth

Dundee has things like

Eh = I
peh = pie
treh = try

i love the way the cots say 'murder'.

not what you're all talking about clearly

but still

oh potted heugh!! used to work in a butcher, that stank when it was warm... >

Feichs?

I am from Dundee.

My mum's brothers put her down a cundie when she was wee. They lifted the cover off so she was hanging on by her elbows. My gran looked out of the window and ran out to rescue her apparently shouting "my bairn, my bairn".

I love peh'n'beanz

Murder is best said in a Glasgow accent a la Targart.

Taggart even

Potted Hock is minging.

Brilliant thread!

My Gran always used to refer to us as hens think its a Fife thing.

peally wally

oxters

boak

jobby

quiney

for ony favour

Great to see Amnt'I being used an old boyfriend used to get really cross with me whenever I said it. My DP the other day said he loves it when something Scots slips into my sentences.

It is amazing how many different words are used in different parts of Scotland. When I moved to Edinburgh I had never heard of 'shan' or 'barry' or a good one - 'poorless' which means laughing so hard can't do anything else
My current personal favourite which I say at least five times a day atm is 'guddle' as in I have just moved house and I am in a guddle
I've always thought that 'haar' was a very romantic word for the east cost mist and 'coorie in' for cuddling in is just lovely

blackafronted/blackafrontit

Bink (plate rack). Nice word, don't have to use it much. Like wise ashet.

Miss yourself.

Help ma Boab!

Outwith as it annoys DH.

oh jings ti hang!

oh yes the haar.

I could always guarantee that by midday the wind would rise and then the haar would come in when I stayed in Dundee, during the summer. If I wanted to saty warm and get some sun I'd have to tavel inland a bit more.

Now I've moved inland a bit more! > Ah don't you love the summer time?

Also like "midden" - as in (to ds) : your room is an absolute midden.

We're having to teach out of ds the habit of saying "J" to rhyme with "eye" while also teaching him to say "I saw" instead of "I seen". Poor child - with pedants for parents!

My grandad used to refer to sherbert as kelly

iloverosycheeks, I would use guddle in a different way!

To me to guddle is to play about with something, generally water related ie guddling in muddy puddles or rock pools, or as I always tell DS when he is wasting water washing his hands..."stop guddling and get on with it"

now fimbo, my Dh does that and i thought it was a north of england thing! I'd never heard sherbet as kelly until a thread on here recently.

My grandad was Scottish through and through. Can't understand how you arrive at kelly from sherbert though.

I use guddle like iloverosycheeks: it means a mess (and normally means my life! )

and exMIL used to say "there's nothing coming o'er him" when ds would be crying for no apparent reason

We used to say things were "gem" (with a hard "G") when they were good.

Outwith - yes. DP thought I made that word up as he had never heard it.

Classic use of the word "fud" on this you tube video

didn't know that "outwith" was not in use outwith scotland

What does haver mean?

DH has a proclaimers cd in his car () and they go on about havering.

I have often wondered what they're on about!

Talking rubbish. It's a great word!