WTF? "Jag" for "injection"!

[duchesse]

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?

Duchesse - plank has a sense of hiding, but can just be something dumped down (like plonked, which I guess is same root?). Am sure you're right about the French connection. I think a lot of Scots slang is connected... ashet pie from assiette (plate), I believe.

And it was roasted cheese in my corner of the southside of Glasgow.

And I insist on us having skelfs here in the deep south.

Anyway, enough of this blether, I need to put my messages away and sort this midden out... I'd be pure scunnered if you lot saw the state of it now...

another good Scots word is bunker for worktop - what a bizarre bunch we are :)

In the west of Scotland "juice" is "ginger" i.e. any fizzy drink is called ginger even if it's Irn Bru, Coke, lemonade, etc!

Also they put "but" on the end of sentences here. Madness.

LOVE bunker. i say that but dh (fifer) looks puzzled.

and are you sure you would't be black affrontet, novus?

In Cork a scrab is a scrawl!

Oh aye I've always had jags like!

My grandparents used to tell my mum and her brothers they'd be sent to 'the home wi the jaggy troosers' if they were bad.

Old thread but had to revive it to add "jaggy blanket" for v itchy scratchy wool ones.

When we used to stay at my gran's overnight (sheets and blankets on the bed, no quilt) we had to push down the jaggy blanket so it wouldn't brush our arms

hehe at jaggy blanket. Another good word but I don't know if its Scottish is oose :)

Deffo jag. I think I've even seen leaflets about contraception talking about "the jag".

Mozette - the bunker thing is very logical. People used to keep their coal in the kitchen in a bunker with a lifting top on it. People still call the worktop the bunker even though there's not actually a bunker underneath any more!!

And isn't a ragnail called a jaggy nail too?

aaaaaaaaaaaaah, of course, mawbroon, how clever of you to know that.

oose as in fluff?

I call a hangnail a 'raggy nail'. It's never struck me as odd, until now. But I suppose it makes sense.

I never knew that's where 'bunker' came from mawbroon! I've learned something new today and it's only 9.30 - I can relax for the rest of the day now.

I like bunker v much - never heard that one strangely.

Oose I love. In our house we have "an oose" or "lots of ooses" which I know is just plain wrong.

Also "stoor" for dust/dirt.

We got an old valve radio repaired by a cool old guy in Ayrshire. He carried it out of the workshop to give it to DH and noticed it was very dusty. Quickly he whipped out a duster and cleaned it off "Hing on, you're no gettin' aw the stoor, that wid be extra"

Scottish words irritate you. Typical mumsnet.

When we got the BCG at school it was a jag (Scotland) When you take your new baby to the doctors to get their vaccinations you take them for their jags.

What really irritates me is the use of double jabbed as in COVID vaccinations. It almost sounds like you've been beaten up but your now ok to travel etc. Can they not say when you have had you're 2 COVID vaccinations?

Ps to plank something down is to basically chuck it on the floor/table wherever just somewhere. Not to hide it. eg if you've got a visitors and they've got coats and ask where to put them (assuming you've not got room or not got some kind of coat hooks) you would say ah just plank them on top of the bed(as an example)

@AitchTwoOh

LOVE bunker. i say that but dh (fifer) looks puzzled.

and are you sure you would't be black affrontet, novus?

Me and DH are both Fifers but from different parts and he says bunker while I had never heard it in my life. But then he’s working class and I’m posh (by his standards🤣).

It’s 100% jag by the way. Jaggy nettles, jaggy jumpers…

Just to be clear, the working class/posh is a long running joke between us…I’m not posh in the slightest (just before anyone starts…)

It’s jag.

Not jab.

I am in Scotland though.

@IntothePitt

Scottish words irritate you. Typical mumsnet.

You are 11 years too late to berate the OP, how far did you scroll back on advanced search just to have a whinge

Yes it's a regional variation. Commonly used in Scotland. Jag. jag, jag.

I'm kind of offended that some people are claiming to be "offended" by what is a perfectly normal word here.

Hah! I didn’t realise it was an old thread 🤦‍♀️

Oh look, more English people thinking their way is the only way that exists.

IntothePitt is a new poster/ name-changer going round bumping old threads to whinge about this and that.

An awfae besom, but.

Lol at the Clever Dick in Pedants’ Corner back in the day totally not getting that whole different countries have different words for things

It’s a Scottish term, so perfectly reasonable. Don’t get me started on the Americanisation of English in the UK 🤬