What is your favourite Scots word??

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havering = talking a load of rubbish/bollocks

havering - means load of rubbish.

Thanks! I can see how that might be useful

Lovely thread. I'm a teuchter and some of these are foreign to me!

Has anyone mentioned foosum? As in filthy. Said this to DS last week 'och look at ye, yur foosum'. Pg brain has me lapsing into Scots quite regularly.

I love amn't I and cannot bring myself to say aren't I despite all these years in exile.

Still say that I'm going to get the messages.

if my aberdonian friend really likes something, she'll say it was "fine", whereas if I really like something, i'll say it was lovely, or say I really like it, iykwim.

Can get confusing if she's over for dinner, will think she doesn't really think too much of my cooking [wnk]

Heard about 10 minutes ago..."Mam ! Ay no, Av'e the wrang shin on"!

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I don't think Hen is neccesarily a Fife word, my MIL uses it to me and she is a Borderer through and through.

Once when we lived in Cambridgeshire, I got talking at mums and tots to antoehr scots girl - it was great, i could speak the way i always had. Anyway, she was from lossiemouth int eh North and me from Dumfriesshire in the south and we were chatting away, and we suddenly became aware that the whole room was quiet and everyone was staring at us. Then one of them piped up "what language were you talking"

Dittnay - When i ahd DS1 in dr Gray's in Elgin the midwife came into the room and said "did ee get a loonie or a quinie". Well she could ahve asked if I'd had an alien, becasue they certianly weren't words I had heard before. So I said "neither, I had a boy"

Wallydugs - false teeth

We lived in a tenament in Anniesland, but according to my mum it was a better class of tenament as it had a "wally close" -a close with nice tiles!

Ginger - any fizzy drink

The stay thing caused confusion for me when I moved here too. It's taken me ages to ask "where do you live" instead.

No, "hen" isn't just a Fife thing- my wee gran (I had a big and a wee one too!) always called us hen! I had a Belgian exchange student stay with us once. Her English was really impressive, but my granny had her completely stumped- especially when she waved her off with, "Well, cheerio, hen! Gled to huv met ya!"

I love pussying (as in pus, not puss miaow) 'stop pussying about and get on with it'

Likewise plesterin'

And the threat of getting a Rap in the Pus. I ahve heard that some police officers use the abbreviation RITP in their notes to depict that exactly!!

i was in my late twenties when i first heard the word "stauner"

Teuch, not heard that in ages

Sorry, meant flier!

oh, almost forgot...

Thinks he's erchie (meaning someone rather pleased with themselves)

Sna' ba' - term of endearment, literally snowball.

Don't ask for a fish supper in England - they don't know what you are talking about!

or a half-loaf (in fact, perhaps even outside DUndee!) or you might literally get half a loaf, whereas you raelly just want the whole thing

And where else, other than DUndee, do you get bean/pea busters?

Torn faced disaster is another favourite.

Oh Teuch I used to get a bean buster for my lunch from the Baked Tattie on the Perth Road when I was at school.

My other staple was a stovie roll from Andrew G Kidd's!

ah, a stovie roll mmmmmmmmm.......

might have to make stovies for tea now.

Are you fae Dundee then Teuch?

If I tell you I got my fritter roll for lunch fro mthe Silvery Tay, will that make us arch rivals?