For Scots Grans (not political!)

Marydoll

All but one of these words are double Dutch to me as Lowlander! 😁

I'm a Lowlander but I understand them all. I'm sure my granny used to say 'as carnaptious as the pigs in Dublin' - but I never did find out why those Irish pigs were so carnaptious, lol!

Grannmarie

And worse than crabbit is carnaptious.

He's a carnaptious auld b#**£r if his team disnae win...

I know two people like that.My DH and my son!

And worse than crabbit is carnaptious.

He's a carnaptious auld b#**£r if his team disnae win...

Glaikit is a good word. As in, ' Thon laddy's glaikit'. (not very bright).
Also mental health technical terms: 'Mental', 'Pure Mental', and finally, 'Radge'.

I remember going out to buy a poke of chips.

Minging to me meant a really nasty smell.

Marydoll The rain was fair stottin' yesterday running doon the stank.

Whenever I'm struggling with life I remember my Gran's words 'Ca' canny lass" and my late Mum reminding me that -
I'm Clyde built , strong enough to deal with what ever life throws my way.

I have just remembered skidaddle. I was frequently told to skidaddle- ie go elsewhere.

I remember plooks. I did not have full blown acne just a few during puberty.

Floradora9

Does anyone rember this one . If my aunts were describing someone who was the boss they would say ( no idea of spelling ) " He is the heid pallydakus " They also described a cupboard as a press .

I’m more familiar with someone being the ‘ heid sherang’ for the person in charge!
And the mention of ‘ginger’ for fizzy drink reminds me of the story of the person ( usually a member of your football team’s rival team) who was asked if he wanted ginger with his melon ( when that was a sophisticated thing to have)
“ Naw, I’ll have wine like everybody else”.

A bottle of ginger, meaning a bottle of fizzy pop.

Also, poor DHwas afflicted with plooks in his teenage years...he had acne.

That was addressed to Katek.

All but one of these words are double Dutch to me as Lowlander! 😁

We use hinging ( hanging for something) to describe feeling under the weather at the onset of some illness or other.
The wean's hinging , he's no' his wee happy self.
Also, ta'en a riddy, to describe blushing with embarrassment, like beamer!

This is a great wee thread, thank you Aveline.

More words.....I'm on a roll today!
Yark
Spail/spale
Stocious
Lowpin
Ganzie/gansey
Tow (as in ow!)

Re tow - it comes from the Dutch, a western Germanic language, and means string or twine in both . We also have Norse (a Northern Germanic language) words in my neck of the woods -flitted til means the same in Doric as in Norwegian - moved to.

But we've all got guid Scots tongues - maybe that's how we manage, lol! And we Scots love a blether...

There's all sorts of old Scots too. I suspect most of the words I know and use are Lallans (lowland Scots language) Others may be related to Gaelic and Doric. Superimposed on that are some words of Romany. Add in to that regional/dialectal/personal usages and you have a huge mixture. It's a wonder we can communicate at all.

paddyann54

"*PURPLEPOPPIES*Its not slang ,its old Scots .

A form of dialect, I agree paddyann

"*PURPLEPOPPIES*Its not slang ,its old Scots .

I’m not Scottish, except by ancestry, but words like stramash and wabbit were part of my childhood.

My patent used to say the rain was Stoating aff the pad

As someone who has to put up with frequent nausea, I know which one I prefer. 😉 It leaves me scunnered, wabbit, exceptionally crabbit and beeling that I have no control over it.

There's another one, beeling/ bealing?

I never said one was worse than the other. Nobody want 'the boak'!

I'm afraid I must disagree with you Aveline, I find the dry boak is much worse! 🤒

Ah was it the dry boak? The wet boak is something else! These medical terms!
I confused my DGS by saying I was dressed like a tattiebogle. Actually, I usually am.

It goes me the boak was another expression from my childhood.

All these words keep coming back to me, but I can't remember where I put my car keys!