WTF? "Jag" for "injection"!

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I had never heard the word "jag" used to mean jab or injection until on here a few days ago. Since then I've seen it pop up time and time again. It's beginning to really irritate me. Is it some kind of regional variation on "jab" or are people just getting it wrong?

Sing along now with the Jeely Piece song!

I think it was previously discussed here - switching on the big light in the living room to lighten our darkness! When I worked in a posh English town, my Scottish colleague and I tried to explain the meaning of a skirt being 'bumfly'. Is there a word for that?

I say jags.

novus -does "to plank" mean to hide? If so , it's very similar to the French slang word "planquer", which also means to hide.

After reading Yule's post am now considering Scotland's historical special relationship with France.

We say jab.

I guess it's because you get 'jabbed' with a needle.

I thought it might vary because of different word meanings.

First time I saw it, I did think it was a typo!

In NI we also use the rlated "scrab" - as in "He scrabbed me with his nails" - great word

is scrabbed not used everywhere?

spell checker wanted me to change scrabbed...so I'm guessing a local word then

Best Scottish thing to confuse is to use 'the back of' ie I'll phone you at the back of ten. Generally non Scits do not use this form of time keeping!

My DH says scrab and he's from NI!

*Scots

lol at "back of" which generally means about 20 past. What used to really annoy me when I first moved to Scotland is the generic use of the word "juice" to mean any nonalcoholic beverage apart from water or milk. I used to shout at DP - "But what is coke the juice OF????"

Jag is used in Australia too.

I would use 'the back of' for anything up to about 20 past :) and I use juice for anything apart from water & milk however Irn Bru is called ginger!

Is it roasted cheese or toasted cheese in your part of Scotland? I use roasted cheese

Didn't know Numpty was Scottish. It's one of my favourite words.

you must be a weegie then Mozette?? Cheese on toast is just cheese on toast here as far as I know.

Dreich has to be my favourite Scottish word.

I say jag, am Scottish.

jag is right

I scoff at the people who say roasted cheese though . They show no understanding of the verb 'to roast' at all

Ive always had toasted cheese in Glasgow.

All this time I have been thinking people are pressing the g instead of the b on their keyboards. I was quite surprised at how often the mistake was made

Another vote for jag and toasted cheese ( not at the same time, mind!)

Good Lord.

here in civilisation a Jag is a jolly nice car

Aaah see in Scotland we don't have cars - we just ride along on our haggii - thats the plural

There is talk of us getting a motorrised haggis one day, but we need to wait until we have established electricity here first.

I am posting via highland coo, you stomp out the message in morse code to one, and they pass it on to a row of highland coos until they reach the border then a nice normal black and white cow types it in to one of those com-puut-uur things I have heard about.