Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

Also, "you'll need your Big Coat" is not something people in the South East have heard of

Is it just in the NE that people refer to the ceiling as the roof? My mother would say, "I'll have to get the man round to wallpaper the roof" Drove me mad.

We also stick ie on the end of everything - mannie, wifie, quinie, loonie, doggie etc

I’ve posted before where my brother suggested his Yorkshire niece “clap the dog” to which she gave it a round of applause

Also, "you'll need your Big Coat" is not something people in the South East have heard of

Presumably a thick, warm one designed to combat inclement winter weather - and not a 'big coat' as in what shoplifters wear (which eventually gets them sent to the 'big house')?!

We also stick ie on the end of everything - mannie, wifie, quinie, loonie, doggie etc

And also the tradition of naming daughters after their fathers by adding 'ina' on to the end of his name. Are there lots of girls/women out there called Ia(i)nina? Must be easy when making personalised birthday cakes, as you'd only need to buy three different letter-cutters for cakes for the dad and the daughter!

I've always thought it strange that, if somebody called Ian were to start his own religion, his followers would be called Ianians!

Tattie scones. Square sausage.

Away hame
Up the street/doon the street for shopping local. In my home town we go up the street for messages in the town I stay in now we go doon the street for messages.
I say bunker for worktop but my dh who was brought up 8 miles away didnae he does now.
That's another one disnae for doesn't the walt Disney/Frank sinatra joke only works in scotland!!
When crying as a kid my old grampa would say - shoosh or I'll gie you something to greet fur! I never knew what it meant till I was older - shocking!!
I would say I need a pee instead of a wee too.

My OH told me a version of the Disney joke but it didn't work for me as further northern we'd say disna rather than disnae.

Naw am urnie !????!?

Ina names - an old neighbour was known as Lena. Her name was Torquilina.

Have also known of Davidina (none of your fancy Davinas here!), an Andrewina and a standard Thomasina.

Also Isobel rhymes with visible not Is A Bell (because that's Isabel).

@Midlander01 : I always thought that it was 'all fur coat and nae knickers' as in someone who is all show and no substance.
Did anyone else's mother describe frumpy clothing as 'granny mutchy'?

Love this thread!

A couple of phrases from my granny (fae Fife):

twaree = two or three (e.g. I need to get twaree messages)

ye cannae see green cheese but yer een reel = even if you saw mouldy cheese you’d want some, in other words you’re greedy/envious

bumbee’s waistcoat = an item of clothing that’s too tight/small

I live overseas now and this thread is making me nostalgic and homesick. We have the best words and phrases!

I always find it amusing how non-Scottish/non-Scots-aware people respond to Billy Connolly's nickname.

The emphasis is always on the 'Yin' rather than the 'Big' - i.e. "I have no idea what a 'yin' is, but it's obviously a very important descriptive Scottish word - and whatever it does mean, Billy must be widely considered to be a very big one of them"

"I'll take mae hand off ye"

There seem to be a variety of Scots words for inebriated, too - I’ve come across stocious, steamin’ and fu’.

Ahm fu' the noo!

Just drove past my Gran's house and remember her saying that. Especially after a really substantial bowl of lentil soup you could lay bricks with.

It used to be bleezin for drunk when I was young. Now I'd probably say pished 🤣

Is it just me or were Scottish folk saying “YAASSSS” decades before it became a “thing”? Like when I was at primary school in the 90s people would say “YASS” rather than “yesss”, like if you scored a goal in the playground. But then about 10-12 (?) years ago everyone, especially Americans etc all started saying it and then things like “YAS QUEEN”. I feel like I’m going mad.

I still use circles.

Yes.

Never heard of circles for roundabouts. I must be too far north.

This happened in Northern Ireland in the 1990s too, so another one for the list of connections. No way to establish which did it first.

I think it's mostly confined to Northern Ireland and Lowland Scotland today.

Yes!!

It appears to only be Dundee and nowhere else!

Giving something a wee shoogle