For Scots Grans (not political!)

I'm a West Fifer and know all of those Emoji meanings. My personal favourite is "bampot". Throughout his life my dad, when talking about a person who was in declining health, would say "Aye I hae ma doots his coat is on a shoogly nail". Love those old sayings.

Charleygirl5, my room was always a midden too!

My old boss used to burst into my office and cry 'Its a bourach! A bourach!'. She was a Gaelic speaker of course.

Oh Marydoll my room was always a midden. That is a word I have not heard for around 70 years.

I never knew the ferries were called Fifies. I learn something new every day. I would put money on it that some of us have been on a ferry at the same time without knowing it. I loved that trip.

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.

Blondiescot

Aveline

And he'd give them a skelp for that. Big difference between a skelp and a skelf of course.

Although both can be painful!

Imagine getting a skelp on a shelf! Ouch!!

Aveline

And he'd give them a skelp for that. Big difference between a skelp and a skelf of course.

Although both can be painful!

Love them, especially blathered.

Its great to enjoy a educational 😉 gentle thread, where everyone is pleasant and there is no animosity.

And he'd give them a skelp for that. Big difference between a skelp and a skelf of course.

nanna8

And I thought Beamer was a BMW!

A boy would have a beamer, when a girl he liked spoke to him and his pals teased him! 😊

And I thought Beamer was a BMW!

Love this! Born in Glasgow, brought up in Lanarkshire and moved to East Lothian 31 years ago. I didn’t know the word Weegie till an Edinburgher (is that the correct spelling?) called me one when I went out to work in Edinburgh! 😂😂

annodomini

70 years ago, we hirpled in Ayrshire (I still do) and referred to the residents of Glasgow as 'Keelies'. Do any former Fifers remember the 'Fifies', the car ferries that plied between Newport and Dundee in the days before the road bridge? When we spent summer holidays with Granny we used to make the trip across the Tay to visit relatives in Broughty Ferry.

I was nearly born on one of the Fifies! My mother went into labour on a Sunday when there was a restricted service. She had to get across the Tay to the nursing home in Broughty Ferry and just made it in a state of panic.

70 years ago, we hirpled in Ayrshire (I still do) and referred to the residents of Glasgow as 'Keelies'. Do any former Fifers remember the 'Fifies', the car ferries that plied between Newport and Dundee in the days before the road bridge? When we spent summer holidays with Granny we used to make the trip across the Tay to visit relatives in Broughty Ferry.

grannyqueenie

Well Marydoll fancy a Paisley Buddie not knowing what a Glesca Keelie is! I remember being taken to Paisley, via a couple of bus rides and the wee Renfrew Ferry across the Clyde, to visit my Godmother there. It felt like a bit of an adventure!

Hand on heart, never heard that phrase. #Bewildered of Paisley.
DH, who live round the corner from me, has heard of it! 😂

Well Marydoll fancy a Paisley Buddie not knowing what a Glesca Keelie is! I remember being taken to Paisley, via a couple of bus rides and the wee Renfrew Ferry across the Clyde, to visit my Godmother there. It felt like a bit of an adventure!

My mum hailed from Ayrshire before she lived in Glasgow so I’d wondered if hirpling originated there, but sounds as if it’s more widespread.
Like you Charleygirl I’ve found I can hirple anywhere! Oh and of course there’s “winching” aka kissing. My husband remembers being in an Easter play with the church youth group. At the crucifixion scene one of the onlookers in the crowd around the cross was supposed to say “look how he (Jesus) winces” but hadn’t read her lines properly…. cue all the teenagers collapsing with laughter, it was not quite the moving scene the youth leader had envisaged!

Bodach

It would seem, ElaineI and Marydoll, that 'beamer' had not penetrated north of the Great Glen in my day. And Highland 'bahookies' were 'bahoochies'. How about 'boorach' and 'slitter'?

I never heard boorach until we lived in Inverness I am sure it is gaelic . I love footer ( meaning fiddly is you say something is a footer ) .

I have remebered another one, keeking, looking.

Great thread Aveline!.

Sumph is a good word. Not a compliment to be told,
'Yer a big sumph'.

I hirple. I was told it was commonly used in Northumberland.

Bodach

Marydoll

Blondiescot

I don't think they're available on Android, unfortuately, Marydoll. All we Android users will be fair scunnered at that!

Well, they're a bunch of eejits and need a guid skelp for discrimination against android users!

In Glasgow gallus means very bold.

In the immortal words of the song: "Oh, ye're ma wee gallus bloke nae mair..."

‘ Wi’ yer bell blue strides, and yer bonnet tae the side’!

I definitely hirpled in Fife and still do in London!

I am a weegie and I have often used the word hirpling, when my hip has been killing me. However, my mother was from Stirling, perhaps it comes from that area.

Strange I have never heard of a Glasgow keelie, I was a Paisley Buddie, as a child.