For Scots Grans (not political!)

I used 'girning' about my wee DGGD just the other day. She was not tearful, just a bit miserable and off her food. No girning today!

Daddima, I still use ‘Annaker’s midden’, learned from my mother!

At the moment, I am looking at the Glennifer Braes from my front doorstep.

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.

May be only in Glasgow that an untidy house or room is said to be like ‘Annaker’s midden’. I think it refers to a pork butcher called Annaker, whose bins ( or midden) was looked through ( raked) by the poor.

Slitter to me is dribbling food or drink, and I would often let my children ‘plouter’ in the water in the sink!

Brae is definitely not a long-lost word around here - I live on a Brae! And sivers just reminded me that it's been an awful long time since I saw the council going round cleaning the sivers - which probably accounts for some of the flooding we see any time there's heavy rain.

Brae is another long-lost word.

My father fell down a stank as a child and broke his leg. They couldn't afford to see a doctor, so it was splinted with an old piece of wood. He walked with alimp for the rest of his life.

Aveline pure, innocent me forgot!!!

Stank and silver are new to me.

Dh just reminded me of stank and siver(sp?)

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

I have never heard of a lonning as a lane but I have often sat on a dyke for a rest.

lonning [lane] not longing autocue mistake.

I live right next to a clarty longing in winter time. My GC is often clartied up and I make a clart in the kitchen.

Oh yes. We were often told to 'stop girning'.

Girn is another word used certainly where I was brought up.

Aye, right which are two positives but meaning the total opposite.

'Braw' is another lovely one. If you watch Scandi Noir TV shows (with subtitles), listen for the Swedes using it in a similar way to us. Years ago in a Youth Hostel abroad, a Norwegian girl told me that our languages share the words 'bairn' and 'kirk'. During lockdown, Lennie Pennie did some great 'Scots word of the day' posts on social media.

We used clatty, rather than clarty. She was a clatty wee besom!

My DH is 'real sair made' trying to walk with his dodgy hip.
He is from Aberdeen and uses that expression to describe anyone walking with difficulty...and its rubbed off on me after 52 years and I'm not even Scottish!

I love it, ‘clart’, I think I will adopt that word, so descriptive! Sounds what it is.

I think I was “blootered” last night at a celebration dinner but woke up “crabbit” this morning.
Cheers!
USA Gundy

In a bourachie in Aberdeen means a small group huddling together.

Jist spearin - only asking, in Aberdeenshire

Aveline

My sister used to get into trouble for slittering at the sink. (Playing around with water). At least she wasn't a dirty wee 'clart.'

We would have said she was 'skittling' (cf 'skiddling' earlier). Slittering was a by-product of eating/drinking messily: specifically dropping food or liquid on one's clothes. A habitual slitterer might be condemned as a 'Slittermagundy'.

It's a bourachie here meaning mess.
Wonder if there are any quines on here who know what this means!!

"Yir kwytes neer doon to yir queets - gie et a haalup

Aveline... bourach was a word my mother used a lot up in the Highlands and as far as I know it means a mess. Fernitickles (fairy tickles) meant freckles , still love that word.

I'm 'fair trauchled' quite often. Also am occasionally 'black affrontit' at something the DGS did!