Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

Macaroon - especially from door to door sellers

The pictures

The baths

‘ben the scullery’ was one of my grannies

are ye biding in? Or ‘bidie in’ for cohabiting

ye’ll get yer jotters - sacked

skooshy cream I think?

Hold on, are empire biscuits a Scottish thing?!

I'm away to do a survey of my office (in SW England) to verify...!

Am urny for ‘I am not’

Originally yes.

@expatscotinthesouth I use Tatties ower the side too!

Also when somebody isn't as young as they'd like to think they are, we say "She's nae a scone o the day's baking"

I say ben the hoose and call school gymshoes "coaties"

I have relatives where the eldest is called after the mum and dad so we had to have David and Davie, John and Ian and wee Mary and Mary but it wasn't long before wee Mary was taller that Mary. She's now 64 but still called wee Mary.

What is ower the side in reference to the tatties (totties)? On the side of the plate?

Have we had scunner yet?

Bochle.

@WeeSaltire was going to say bahookie. Usually as in fall on yer 😂

Basically means something has gone to shit 😊

Going through to Edinburgh - yes! Makes perfect sense.

Awa an bile (boil) yer heid

😄Brilliant, thank you, I've not heard that one before.

My gran wasn't pleased I had a bidie in. Seethe about it till we got married.

Clarty, glaikit and mockett also good words.

Moaning that the good telly in the summer holidays didn't start till the English schools were off.

Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade that showed approx 90 seconds of each cartoon each week.

Going to the baths and the pictures.

my Dad made clootie dumpling every time we visited. He also used to have a cauldron of soup on the go at all times

My English DP has lived in Scotland a long time but I’m the first Scottish girlfriend he’s had. And I’m a schemie 😂
He’s confused by:
the bunker
the bucket
the basin (washing up bowl?!?)
How?
being ages with someone
staying at my bit/your bit/their bit etc
the now
hen
ken
the back green
gutties
skooshy cream
going for a hurl in the car

I’m sure there’s loads more.
I bought him a Scottish/English dictionary 😂

@Reeniefitheclose I think it came from the tatties bring ower the side of the pan therefore being ruined.

My dad used to say "Who belongs this coat?"

I'm on the Moray coast but there are different words in each village.

@weegiemum
Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat
700 hungry weans'll testify tae that
If it's butter, cheese or jeely if the breed is plain or pan
The odds against it reaching Earth are ninety-nine tae wan!

After a couple of drinks one Xmas my neighbour asked me, "what high are you?"

That was a new (Scottish) one for me!

I have never heard that one.

Also don't really hear what age are you so much on the east coast as I did on the west coast.

"Dookit" is a much used word in our house, to describe basically any space a all. We have a dookit where we hang our coats and put our shoes. Also, any shelves or gaps or spots in the house that I'm referring to on a whim is "just stick it in the dookit over there!"

As others have said "outwith" - I was in my thirties before I was told it isn't a common term. How do other people manage without it? I use it all the time!

I assumed he was asking about my height. I’m quite tall and he seemed bewildered by that, bless.

See me? Ah kent your faither.

5O years and I still struggle to remember if "the back of six o'clock" means ten to or ten past.

Ah here !
Craicnet. It's called Craicnet.
Craignet 🙄😀

Pish. Noun and verb.

HA😂

*And yy 'where do you go to school?' as code or ' do you kick with the left foot?'

Everywhere else I've been 'where do you go to school?' is to assess social class. In Glasgow, it's both/ either religion and class.*

My son came home from first day at primary school in Glasgow and asked "Mum, am I a Tim or a Prod?" (I had no idea, never heard of either) " Well, I need to know for tomorrow, for the fight".