For Scots Grans (not political!)

I quite often see estate agents around here referring to properties having an 'Edinburgh press'. And I use sair fecht all the time.

Borrheid it's a sair fecht, isn't it?
I hope the exercises are helping. x

I told my physio today I was wabbit after the exercises! He’s Asian so new to him.

Have we had stoating, meaning rock hard?

Aveline

Puggled just means tired out.
Puggies are something else of course: fruit machines. Someone can be, 'As fu' as a puggy'. ie drunk!

It definitely means drunk in the west. Tbats the beauty of language, all the nuances and variations.

... and scaffies were binmen! (From scavengers, I think).

Floradora9 I had totally forgotten about a press but I have never heard of the other.

Is being half cut a Scottish or English expression? Meaning half drunk.

Ben to me meant next.

Baffies were slippers

Ah yes ........ the lobby press!

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 .

Marydoll

I have remembered another word, hoachin'.
I can't remember what I did yesterday, but these words are flooding back.
My mother used to talk about the midden, rather than the dustbin.
Midden was also used to describe a woman, who didn't keep her self nor her house clean.

There is a tune called " The Hen's March to the Midden " A bagpipe tune I think .

Puggled just means tired out.
Puggies are something else of course: fruit machines. Someone can be, 'As fu' as a puggy'. ie drunk!

When we talked about someone being puggled, we meant they were drunk, but not as drunk as being blootered.

This has been such an enjoyable thread for me, as someone who is fascinated by language and its development.

What about stramash ?

I describe my GS as puggled when he's milk drunk (iyswim)
I live in Scotland, not born here though.
It took me ages to work out why all these people were going out for their messages 🤣
I understand most local slang, my DD and now DGD (another generation another lot of words/new meanings to learn) are useful with this.
Dialect is a wonderful thing.

Sorry - forgot to say that was for Charliegirl5

grannyqueenie

“Sook” also describing someone as a “sook” would mean they were trying to ingratiate themselves or “suck up” to another person, as in a child being a a bit of a goody goody!

Yes indeed - I often call our black Lab 'a big sook' when he's putting on his big puppy dog eyes and trying to persuade you to part with some of whatever it is you're eating at the time.

Siver is a street drain as is a stank, corrie jookit is left handed, collybuckie is a piggy back and a forpit is a measurement of weight - 1/4 of a stone.

“Sook” also describing someone as a “sook” would mean they were trying to ingratiate themselves or “suck up” to another person, as in a child being a a bit of a goody goody!

Charleygirl5

Katek and Blondiescot you have lost me totally as I have never heard of any of them.

Clipshears are earwigs, cushies (or cushie doos) are pigeons, hoolets are owls, brocks are badgers, bubby jocks are turkeys, puddocks are frogs and slaters are woodlice.

I’ve loved reading all these expressions, sone I’d completely forgotten, haven’t lived in Scotland since 1969. “Puggled” is another one I remember my mother using when she was feeling worn out.
And you’re right Charleygirl it’s a happy thread and no one’s “gone off in a huff”!

Aveline

Be careful of that these days Charleygirl!
I've never heard of a 'lonning' either.

A lonning is a country lane in Cumbrian, we also call hedges Dykes whereas, in most of England, it is a drainage channel.
Foxes are Tods and Toads are Chads.

Katek and Blondiescot you have lost me totally as I have never heard of any of them.

I've not actually seen a clipshear for years, now that I come to think about it, Katek. And that's also reminded me of a few more animal/bird related ones - cushies, hoolets, brocks, bubbly jocks, puddocks and slaters.

Just remembered a couple more....
A forpit of tatties
Corrie jookit
Collybuckie
Clipshear

Ah, sook is another word. I used to sook an ice cream or a sweet.

Wee boys I knew used to love the 'siver sookers' which came along and cleaned out the drains.