For Scots Grans (not political!)

Love this thread! Someone sent me the emoji list earlier, it made me smile as have the missing ones that have been mentioned here. Hirpling (limping) is another I remember, though my husband who is also a Glesca keelie doesn’t know that one!

I certainly know what a Glassgie kiss is as well after working with a Glaswegian luckily she never felt the need to give one.

Aveline

I seem to remember Paw Broon wearing galluses (braces)

Galluses are braces in Cumbria as well.

I’m South of the Border, but familiar with a few of those expressions. Of course, it’s taps aff down here when watching the Toon play football, come rain or shine!
A side of chips is often referred to as a Glasgow salad!

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'?

We always bought a half loaf in Fife and I had the same problem when I moved to London. I was also told I had to buy a whole loaf.

I had never heard the word "baffies" until I moved to Dundee.

Still a lot of English do not understand what the Glasgow kiss is!

I'd only heard 'gallus' as the plural 'galusses' meaning braces to keep the trousers from falling down, but all the rest are familiar to me as is Marydoll's list of words. My granny, a Dundonian, always referred to a 'half loaf', but in my home territory in Ayrshire, I don't recall its use. Living, as I have been for 50+ years, south of the border, I still use them in my head and when I'm talking to DS'2's partner who comes from Northern Ireland where the same scotticisms are still in use. I would dearly love to have those Scots emojis to bamboozle my Sassenach family and friends, but I'm also an Android user

Charleygirl5

In my youth I trained and worked in Edinburgh then moved to Dundee and it was like a foreign country, I could not understand a word so heaven help somebody from eg England.

Fankle is the only word with which I am not familiar.

I do like dreich and drookit but I had to drop the word messages many years ago as nobody understood what I meant.

For a long time, I never really thought of 'messages' (as in shopping) as being a particularly Scottish word. You brought your messages home and put them on the bunker - sometimes in the scullery!
As an aside, my MiL was visiting relatives in England and went to the bakers to buy some bread. She asked for a half-loaf - and the woman looked at her as if she was mad and said "We don't cut them in half, you have to buy a whole one." She told me later that she didn't realise a 'half-loaf' was a particularly Scottish thing. MiL was also a butcher and said you had to be careful buying meat in English butcher's shops as not only were the cuts of meat different, but had different names too. What a kerfuffle!

Pure dead brilliant, wish we could have them on Android.

Just shows the importance of spelling (and reading) words right, to differentiate ming from minge. What a difference one letter makes! Like public and pubic.

Of course minging isn't a profanity - the definition of a profanity is that it is insulting to religion. I can't think offhand of any anti-religious connotations of "minging". I suppose you could say a 3-day-old corpse must be minging, but that would be stating the obvious, not being profane.

It means smelling bad, stinking, and being generally horrible. Like this - english.stackexchange.com/questions/19778/in-what-contexts-would-one-use-the-slang-word-minging-in-british-english

In my youth I trained and worked in Edinburgh then moved to Dundee and it was like a foreign country, I could not understand a word so heaven help somebody from eg England.

Fankle is the only word with which I am not familiar.

I do like dreich and drookit but I had to drop the word messages many years ago as nobody understood what I meant.

Aveline

Minging is pretty commonly used round here. It can't be a profanity!

In common use around here too. I'm wondering if the company email picked it up because it's very similar to m*nge?

Minging is pretty commonly used round here. It can't be a profanity!

I once sent DD an email and used the word minging. Her company's email system blocked it, as apparently minging is a profanity. You learn something new everyday, I thought it was a common Glasgow word. She was raging!!!

Don't forget wallies and baffies. (I've only got baffies.)

What about:
bahookie
fankle (I still use it)
footering (I still use it)
coorie in
dook
dreich
haver ( a fault of mine)
shoogle
keek
piece (sandwich)
messages (shopping)
blether

This has triggered a lot of memories.

Marydoll

Bodach

Google tells me that the term 'beamer' refers to blushing with embarrassment, but it's not an expression I have ever encountered - in Scotland or elsewhere. Every day's a school day...

Beamer was a very common expression, when I was a child in Glasgow.

We used it all the time Marydoll - in Midlothian. Love this Aveline so thanks. Have used all of these 😆

Oh you are gallus, Bridie. 😂

Loved the emojis and reading all the comments on this thread.
I just love the word scunnered.

And since it's caught the attention of Scots grans, can I do a wee cheeky hi-jack and point you in the direction of a planned meet-up in St Andrews. It's on the meet up Forum.

Charleygirl5

I have never heard of gallus before. I come from East Fife.

wild, unmanageable, bold; impish, mischievous, cheeky is rthe meaning often used in Angus where I grew up .

bodach that brought back some memories!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqDEyZub8u8

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..."

I remember a very hot day in a local town when a work colleague and I popped out to get some sandwiches for lunch. There were a lot of 'taps aff' that day and she remarked "No' a bonny sight, is it - not a pound o' them hinging the right way!"

Agree re 'taps aff'. I've seen some awful sights today.