Very Scottish things

[Jbrown76]

Inspired by the very Irish things thread on Craignet.

God I want a macaroni pie now, the clagginess is part of the appeal! In Aberdeen you could get them deep fried at the chippy, deep fried pizza also a wonderful Scottish experience, but you need to lie down for an hour after and digest it like a snake that’s eaten a whole goat or something.

I say the back of for times to do things all the time, drives English husband nuts “WHEN IS THAT!”

Oh the seagull's hae a lighthoose oot in Fife
Oh the seagull's hae a lighthoose oot in Fife
Oh the seagull's hae a lighthoose
They treat it like a shitehoose
Oh the seagull's hae a lighthoose oot in Fife

Em fae Dundee and the first time I took my husband up to see my granny and grandad he was completely floored by the fact he couldn't understand most of what they said. They were very broad. He was particularly flumoxed by ben the hoose, chate me guts and Dundonian numbers ... "what's fower?" "what's echt?"

I like "awa": em awa, awa ower there, awa ta hell, awa ta buggery, awaaaa (when someone says something mad or bad or unbelievable.

Wee wifie, auld wifie - every female to my granny was a wifie of some sort.

Granny sookers.

The fact that every one who came into the house was offered a plate o soup "come oan, tak a wee bitty."

I miss Dundee, I miss hearing my gran and grandad speak. This has been a lovely thread which has brought back wonderful memories.

Chance your arm! Didn't realise this was a Scottish phrase until recently. Also Coley buckies for piggy back (but think that's an Edinburgh thing!)

@Mamabear04 I've been trying to remember that name for a piggy back forever, thank you!

We called it a coalie bag! (Like lugging a bag of coal I guess)

Is that a catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?
or
Aye but if ye did like fitbaw, wid ye support sellic or rangurs?

We called piggy backs "coalie back2 in the north east.
Also peek a boo is "teet a bo"

Everybody who came to the house unannounced was offered "their denner" so we had to divvy up the food between us and the unexpected guests. Sometimes if they had come from a distance they would be offered to bide the night.
I can't imagine turning up at somebody's house totally unannounced nowadays - I might take a cup of tea but nothing else. I can remember being on holiday in 1966 and we called at the house of a man my dad had been in the war with. His wife was totally taken aback when we turned up on their doorstep - my dad being convinced we'd be offered food or a bed for the night and his language was choice when he weren't even invited in as the guy was at work!

What a fantastic thread, it's made me so homesick and nostalgic!

Favourites from my childhood...

Fouter - yer a wee fouter and the ducks will get you. Also foutery

Fankle - I'm all in a fankle/it was all fankley

Being sent to bed with 'get tae yer scratcher'

Ya clown - you absolute idiot/numpty

Town bakeries with delicious fern cakes, eiffel tower sponge cakes, empire biscuits

Mortons rolls from the local shop, well-fired!

I call piggy backs either cuddybacks or kiddycods.

Fankle love that word!

Red Kola

Saying outside in instead of inside out

City bakeries tottie scones

Henry Healys.."yi want yur egg burst hen"

Aulds sody scoanes

Square slice on mortens rolls wi rid sauce

Nae wonder ah'm fat

Toatie - as in tiny

I’m late to this thread, haven’t read it all, so apologies if I’m repeating anything. I always thought baffies were slippers, not rolls.
Jotters: if you “receive your jotters” at work, that means you’ve been fired.
I first heard “cruising for a bruising” and “heading for a spreading” when I got to know lots of West Coast people at university. I’m not sure if the phrase “Hope your next shit’s a hedgehog” directed at someone you don’t like is Scottish or not.
Lots of Scottish phrases are about understatement, and the meaning is conveyed by your tone of voice. Similar to @Babdoc’s hierarchy of medical diagnoses, there is also a scale of attractiveness rating.
All right: you are probably regarded as quite good looking
Not bad: definitely good looking
Not bad at all: extremely hot

Scotland getting gubbed at football 😞

She's ages with ...

I used to work in a chippy, for my brother, and chippy sauce was HP sauce diluted. In a lemonade bottle with a hole popped in the top.

I don't understand why they don't do this in England. My local chippy doesn't even have sachets, and for £8 for a supper, I am not giving him my custom. :grin:

Bunker was the term in our house. Nowadays, I say worktop. Agree about the sideboard - that was a living room thing and the only interaction with it was having to dust it on a Saturday morning. The wrapped Christmas presents were hidden in its cupboards.

I know, but they lucky buggers have scraps

When my English DD came back home after her first term at Edinburgh Uni, she asked if juice was a term for everything. I hadn't really thought about it in 35 years, but then agreed that it was. Back in the day, we rarely had real juice, so it was just squash.

It was always a question. My school had Saint in the name, but we kicked with the right foot.

Blether
Relatives asking ‘ye winchin?’ as in ‘have you got a bf?’
Crispy rolls
Plain bread
Hackit
Bunker
Ginger is something you drink
Sham gab
Going for the messages
GBX
Baltic
Skelp
Skoosh
Beelin as in raging
Bilin (boiling) as in too hot
’Riddy’ culture (maybe west coast specific)

Re juice being the name for everything, in the NE it tended to be that everything fizzy was called lemonade eg orange lemonade, white lemonade etc. My English MiL couldn't understand what I was on about.

I have reread this thread and the lady below talking about her Dundee grandparents has given me second degree nostalgia. I miss being called 'hen' by wee old ladies on Glasgow buses starting up conversations with me and showing me their Watt Brothers, Goldbergs, Arnotts or Lewis's purchases. I also remember the term of endearment 'pettie ' from older folks 'up north' in my very early childhood.