so as most of you know crespin is coming over to our green and verdant scotland for a visit. shes interested in learning about some scottish culture so i am writing a dictionary of scottish terms for the disserning canadian :)

so far i have

scunnered
fu
'pae'
aye

and a few others

(i hasten to add that she's been warned we don't actually speak like this!)

a belter of a no-shun ;) = great idea

(us west coasters are easier to understand of course, particularly by visitors from Holland :-D )

gone yersel - well done
wee stoater - beautiful
beelin - very angry
glaeket - stupid
skelly eyed - cross eyed
hee-haw - nothing, as in 'knows hee haw'

(OH has already fashioned a glossary - here to help if needed LOL)

pssst...she'll need translations! (shes already got mine on her thread)

Fit like loon (my rats are called that) :-D
peely wally
map map anyone know what it is?
speugh
Lum as in Lang may yer lum reek

This looks good
http://www.sorbie.net/scots_words.htm

She's got a thread ...... didn't know that LOL.  Ok, point me that way ;)

in her blog :)

ah, OK, off to look for a blog LOL. 

I mark everything read and then read it ..... so blogs tend to disappear forever :-p   Methinks better I read BEFORE marking read .... nah, would spoil the excitement :-p

lol interesting filing system

Thanks, Astarte!  I am so scared I wont know anything

Learned another one though, DOUP means bottom!  LOL I like that one. 

lol, i've never heard half of these

I use Goony for Nightgown as well! 

And ThingAMyJig, I use that, but to me it means an object that I cant think of the name of "Gimme the ThingaMyJig from the wachamahuzits"  (give me the thing thats in the place where it is-when you dont know what you are looking for, and dont know where it is) 

HONKIN is to honk your horn in the car to us, or it means big.  (ie:  Honkin your horn, or thats a honkin nose) 

mare fur ye = some more :)

lang here?  =  Have you just arrived?
a blot = a certainty
geezabrek = patience please 
clap eg. "clap the dug" = to stroke 
haud yer wheesht = quiet please, (shut up!)
blether = chat
ginger   =  any carbonated soft drink
sleekit = sly
Nyaff   =  eg. "Wee nyaff" - someone who's a pain in the erm, neck LOL 
shoot the craw = leave early

I've left out the rudest ones - don't want you getting 'banjo'ed' Kory :-D

took me ages to realise that baffies were slippers and that if you were going to do your messages you were actually going shopping or to the bank!
OH has family in Scotland and my first time up there was spent in a state of confusion!!

The Jeelie Piece Song
.............................

Oh, ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty story flat                "oh, you cannot throw sandwiches out of a twenty story tennement
seven huner hungry waynes wheel testify tae that                700 hungry children will testify to this
be it butter, cheese or jeelie                                              no matter if its butter, cheese or jam
be the breid be plain or pan                                               or if the bread is plain or pan
the odds against it reaching earth are 99 tae 1                     the odds against it reaching the bottom are 99 to 1"

On the first day me mither threw a piece and Hovis brun         "on the first day my mother threw a sandwich of brown bread to me
it went skiting oot the windey and went up instead oh doon   it flew out of the window and went up the way
noo every 27 ours it comes back in tae sight                        now every 27 hours it comes into our atmosphere
mae piece went in tae orbit and became a satalite                having become a satalite"

and it goes on...

this is a wonderful song about the Glasgow tenements

ah! thats all over the place! boo :(

> (i hasten to add that she's been warned we don't actually speak like this!)

Don't we? I was brought up speaking doric and still do especially when I'm with my folks!

lol i know few people who do but why not!

A lot of folk who were born in this area and have lived here all their lives speak doric especially the ones who live in the country or have a country background. The townsers tend to speak a bit more 'English' lol
Don't know if the link will work but here goes.
http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/doric.php

I had to google doric LOL.  When I realised its origins it revealed the mysteries of many a slang word that's gone right over my head. 

Methinks I'll stick to the Glesga keely versions of traditional Scots.   Billy Connolly, Taggart and Take the High Road have helped with less need for translations although if truth be told myself and my daughter are frequently asked by Scots from all corners 'where do we originally come from?' as it seems we're just not representative of our local vernacular :-D 

crespin if your staying with me you have also got to learn to say

"twa plin bridies an an ingin ain an awe"

the dundee residents amoung us will recognise this phrase :)

(two plain bridies* and an onion one as well please)

*bridie-a pastry filled with minced beef

we.ve taught one of the girls at work who is from India to say this and its so funny, shes very proud!

> The Jeelie Piece Song
>

bringing back many happy memories for me kim, singing that song on school trips etc. im sitting here singing out loud lol. :)

Hoot - what
Haevna - havent
Clatty - dirty
Kerpet - carpet
Hod yir wheecht - be quiet

and my favorite from here in Campbeltown

Feengirs - fingers

not as good as the Aberdonian launguage ( cant spell !! tonite !! ) though I cant understand that at all but it sounds great

I LOOOOOOVE the jeelie piece song!!! It was on the Mother's Pride advert a few years ago.  Maybe it's on You Tube and Crespin can hear it :-)

Foo's yer doo's? - How are you this fine day? (Think it actually means how are your pigeons but I'm not sure).

Yes a doo is a pigeon and a cushy doo is a wood pigeon. lol

Lol thanks.
I've just remembered the response one should give if asked this question :-)
Q. Foo's yer doo's?
A. Aye peckin...

A few choice words from the Clyde coast:

http://www.glesga.ndo.co.uk/glesgaglossary.htm

http://www.firstfoot.com/php/glossary/phpglossar_0.8/index.php?letter=a

One of my friends who visits from Canada can't believe how fast we speak here. Her all time favourite came when 'in i' toon fur i' messages' she heard somebody scream across a busy shop 'hey, at' bawbags pur jookin' i' queue, so i' is' (translation: that idiot is skipping his turn in the queue)

We're over in Inverclyde, handy for Loch Lomond, Glasgow etc. is she's looking for a guided tour.

My hubby comes from Inverclyde and it took me a long time to understand what his relations were saying, mind you he couldn't understand mine  either. lol

LOLOLOLOL!!!! Bawbags!!!! Yes that is OH's favourite Glasgow word (he's English btw).

My OH only hails from Glasgow and even she struggles with our accent sometimes!

Story I was told when learning how to better give evidence in court:
A man appearing in court explains that he was on his way to a mates house "fur a' tap"
The well spoken PF asks "Is your friend a plumber, if you were looking for a tap?"
A lawyer stands up and replies "Your honour, in this part of Scotland 'a tap' is slang for a loan of money."
The PF turns to the accused and asks "Is that right, were you looking for money?"
The accused looks scunnered as he pulls at his shirt and replies " Nah, a tap... a fitba' tap!"
(sounds funnier when spoken in a broad Greenockian accent)

Heres a list of Scottish sayings and their meanings

http://www.edzell.org/Scottish_Sayings.htm

One of my aunty's is Scottish and she used to say to the kids when they were being naghty..."ill tak my hand off yer face/bottom if yer dae nae haud yer wheesht!"
Which means "Ill give your face/bum a good slap if you dont shut up"
she was always saying it to our Fiona lol

hope this helps.

My granny used to threaten me with  'I'll come in yer lug a ring' which has a similar meaning, a slap round the ear.

Another one that she used when she was in her 80's and tired at the end of the day was 'I'm fair faurfochen'

Aberdeen speak a different version of Doric to folk in town in Aberdeenshire. I grew up in Peterhead, my mum and her parents had lived there all their lives so spoke 'toon's doric' whereas my dad was born and brought up on a croft and spoke 'country doric'. The country doric is probably more difficult to understand as they do have a more pronounced accent.

I grew up in Reading (England) and always puzzled my friends when I telt them "I had to dae ma mither's messages or I'd be gie a skelped lug or bum"

:D

And to this day, I'll still say to either of my sisters that they suit something, rather than something suits them!!   And I'll still get down on my callyhunkers to pick things up off the floor!

> fu
> 'pae'

lol, kim - you are clearly not originally from Dundee as your spelling is atrocious!

If the words are what I think they are 'foo' is drunk 'peh' is pie and further down the bridies are 'plein'  Your dundonian leaves me black affronted. lol ;)

> "twa plin bridies an an ingin ain an awe"

I tried saying that out loud and this is what I said:

twa pline briddes anne anne in gin ainne anne aww

Probably totally wrong LOL  Just imagine a Canadian trying to say that! 

I will learn that phrase proper, if you say "Roll Up The Rim To Win" when I come.  I gotta learn how to roll my Rs, I am sooo bad at it! 

> We're over in Inverclyde, handy for Loch Lomond, Glasgow etc. is she's looking for a guided tour.

and probably a translater LOL  I guess the Doric Scots on You Tube is far from what is actually spoken, I was watching them all night last night.  Repeating everything, but I guess it would sound funny, since I cant roll rs and I cant make my voice sound "harsh" (dont know how to explain it)

> lol, kim - you are clearly not originally from Dundee as your spelling is atrocious!
>

lol, i do apologise, i am not from Dundee originally but Tayport in Fife (or Taypsie in The Kingdom if we shall continue with the colloquial) and went to school in St Andrews. My darling other half who is from Kirkcaldy says that because of this i am not so much a Fifer as English !

in fairness though my spelling appaling all the time :)

twa - like 3 in french (but 2)

plein- plea-n (hard n)

bridies- bride (like at weddings) eeee

an

ain- aaa-in

eingin- ing-in

ain (as above)

an

aw- awe

> twa - like 3 in french (but 2)
>
> plein- plea-n (hard n)
>
> bridies- bride (like at weddings) eeee
>
> an
>
> ain- aaa-in
>
> eingin- ing-in
>
> ain (as above)
>
> an
>
> aw- awe

Thats going to take a lot of practice!!!!!

Crespin,

You'll find the accents on different coasts very different so just when you think you have it sussed.............

you've time :)

> You'll find the accents on different coasts very different so just when you think you have it sussed.............

So I appoligize now, for any missunderstandings related to communication barriers.  Meaning, I think I will have it down say in Dundee, and go somewhere else and the same word means something completely different, so I hope I dont get "Chibbed?" 

> Dundee, and go somewhere else and the same word means something completely different, so I hope I dont get "Chibbed?" 

excellnt use of colloquial in context :)

i think chibbeds bi coastal though :)

LOL! Yes that's right :-)
For instance, a "wee jobbie" in Aberdeen is completely different to a "wee jobbie" in Glasgow :-)
(In Aberdeen it is a "small task", in Glasgow it is a "Number 2".  You would be surprised how long it took me to figure that out).

> For instance, a "wee jobbie" in Aberdeen is completely different to a "wee jobbie" in Glasgow :-)
> (In Aberdeen it is a "small task", in Glasgow it is a "Number 2".  You would be surprised how long it took me to figure that out).

That made me giggle! 

Cor blimey Guv!

Aah don't Adam an Eve it, popped in for a Butchers 'ook after puttin' me plates o' meat up and kickin off me Daisy roots.pop on me day trippers and this is messing with me swede!! (Barnet's a mess too coz of this weather but that's another jackanory!!)
   Gawd knows what the Antiseptic's thinking!
Me Alice bands are right flying over the keyboard talkin' A la mode!! so aah thought aa'd put in me able and willings worth. Havin' a bubble with this but I'm cream crackered, and its 'urtin me loaf! (and takin' me Donkey's ears to do) but I 'aint had a French egg yet!
  It is makin' me belt and buckle tho'!!
Thinks its time to get the stinger on me old Chinas for a nice cuppa Rosie Lee in a Cock linnet. Im in a right two&eight now trying to think up lemon curds and Rabbit & Porking like this, all a bit fore and aft!

The sweatys will be rubbin thier mince pies and thinking this is a bit Daffadown dilly so I'd better Apple toff! Being a bit of a Bengal Lancer but only havin' a Giraffe with ya cocker ;)

Baked P'tater Alligator! :-D

well.

goodness.

standing ovation, that was quite amazing! (though i only understood about every 3rd word...)

Once again HG you have got me lmao big style :)

ok I am gonna have a go at what you said HG

(Barnet's a mess too coz of this weather but that's another jackanory!!)

Sommins a mess because of the weather, but thats a whole other story?????

so aah thought aa'd put in me able and willings worth

Thought you would put your two sense in on the topic?????

Havin' a bubble with this but I'm cream crackered, and its 'urtin me loaf! (and takin' me Donkey's ears to do)

You are enjoying this, but you are tired and its hurting your head (not to mention taking forever to write like this)

It is makin' me belt and buckle tho'!!

Your laughing as you do this though??????

The sweatys will be rubbin thier mince pies and thinking this is a bit Daffadown dilly so I'd better Apple toff! Being a bit of a Bengal Lancer but only havin' a Giraffe with ya cocker

Everyone will be rubbing their eyes, and thinking this is a bit silly, so you are gonna go now and stop.  Just having a joke or something?????????????????????????????????????

Now laugh at the poor Canadian who probably got it all wrong.  LOL and then tell me what it really means

*Presents Crespin with a plate of jellied eels, mash and liqour!*
    ~ Well done Kory, you've mastered Cockney now too!~

Translation:
I don't believe (adam & eve) it, popped in for a look (Butcher's hook) after putting my feet (Plates of meat) up and kicking off my boot (Daisy roots) put on my slippers (Day trippers) and all this is confusing my head (swede) My Hair (Barnet fair) is a mess because of the weather but that's another story! (Jackanory)
      Goodness know what the American (septic tank - yank) is thinking.
My hands (Alice bands) are typing quick in code (A la mode) so I thought I'd put in my shillings (able & willings) worth. Having a laugh (Bubble bath) but I'm exhausted (cream crackered= knackered) and it's hurting my head (loaf of bread) and taking me forever to do (Donkey's ears = years) but I haven't had enough (French egg = un oeuf!) yet!
   Its making me chuckle (belt buckle) though.
Think its time to put the kettle (stinging nettle) on my friends (China plates = mates) for a nice cup of tea (Rosie lee) in a minute (Cock linnet). I'm in a right state (two & eight) trying to think up words (Lemon curds) and talking (rabbit & Pork = talk, often shortened to just 'rabbit') like this, all a bit daft (fore and aft).
      The Scots (Sweaty sock = jock) will be rubbing their eyes (mince pies) and thinking this is all a bit silly (daffadown dilly) so Id better get going (Apple toff = to do the off) being a bit of a chancer (Bengal lancer) but only having a laugh (Giraffe) with you my friend (cocker)

See you later! (Baked potato  pronounced potater and/or Alligator)

:-D
(Kory prefuse apologies for the use of American!! I couldnt for the life of me think of what a Canadian was in cockney rhyming slang!?? maybe there is not word becuase we like you! :) <- *creep!*