This is a discussion on Scottish Slang within the Language forums, part of the Culture category; What's your favourite slang words? Here's a few to start you off... Boak - To throw up, be sick See ...
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| Status: Administrator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: South Lanarkshire Age: 29 Posts: 944
![]() | What's your favourite slang words? Here's a few to start you off... Boak - To throw up, be sick See Tony Blair, every time I see his coupon, ah wantae boak Hunners - A number generally more than 10. Ah've told you hunners ae times, dinnae pick yer nose wi yer fork Numpty - Numb tea. A useless individual. See that John Swinney? He's a right numpty, see that Jack McConnel? He's a real numpty |
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| Status: Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: fife Age: 47 Posts: 30
![]() | some or my favourite ones ![]() bairn - pronounced bear-n - baby/child bonnie - nice/pretty Blutered - pronounced blue-turd - drunk Crabit - pronounced krab-it - irratable Eedjit - prounonced - ee-jit - idiot Last edited by berley; August 15th, 2008 at 11:55 AM. Reason: typing error |
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| Status: Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Coatbridge Age: 38 Posts: 8
![]() | I wonder if todays slang will stand the test of time? 'Ya Ride' 'Ya Fanny' I hope not, lol |
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![]() | I was in glesgow one day and I meet one of my mackars and he asked me were do I comfee? I said from my moms belly and he went in a hoof and then I said am only keden and he woodny take it, cause he didny noo that was a joke wee baggar but after all I invited him for a wee drum of buckfast in Coatbrigg. ![]() |
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| Status: Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: N.Lanarkshire Age: 37 Posts: 1
![]() | A • amurNay - I am not! • aslaat - I was remarked to say (So the boss sez tae me that I was lazy, and aslaat "Naw amurNay!") Aye - Aye Am Gawn The Nite B • baltic - really cold (It is the Baltic!) • bampot - an idiot, unhinged person (He is a bampot) • bawbag - scrotum, pejorative (That guy's a bawbag) • bawsed - drunk (I was pure bawsed the other night) • blootered - drunk • boggin - smelly, dirty (That's boggin'!) • bowfin - smelly, similar to howfin. C • chib/chibbin - a chib is a weapon (knife, bat, wood) - chibbin is the adjective (He is gonna get a chibbin!) • coupon - face (What's the matter with your coupon?) D• dog/doggin - Haveing sexual intercourse in the back of a car "Oh my God they where doggin'!" Usually seen up Arthur Street in the wee hours. • dug - a dog F • feert - to be scared (I am faird of the dark) • fousty - dark/damp G • geggy - mouth - "( Wheesht yer geggy") • ginger - carbonated drink, • gowpin/lowpin - sore body part - (My knee is gowpin) • Gock* - to stare ("wits that bawbag gockin at?") H• hackit - ugly • howfin/howlin - smelly I J• jake(y) - a homeless or unkempt person (usually describing an alcoholic) • jessie/jessy - wimp/ big girl's blouse • jobby - a single stool (faeces) L • liftit - to be arrested by the police • loaby - hallway M• maw - mum (Aye yer maw) • mawkit - very dirty (Your trousers are mawkit!!) • mince - rubbish/nonsense - (Don't talk mince) • minger/mingin - originally a Scottish word for dirty/smelly/horrible thing or person N• napper - head • naw- no • nippin - nagging • numpty - a useless individual/moron P • pan - break or disfigure (Pan the windows in) also a type of bread - pan bread. S • skonn - to hit with a thrown object -(Some diddy just skonned the back of ma napper wi a pie) • scooby - clueless, (Don't have a scooby) ((Scooby Doo=clue) • scramble - a wedding tradition where the father of the bride would throw small change from the departing wedding car to neighbouring kids • skiddle - to play in water • skoosh - easy (That exam was a skoosh) • slitter - to dribble food/miss the mouth • steamin - drunk • stocious - heavily drunk, (He was blootered; totally stocious!) • store dug - lazy/laid back • stowed oot - busy, full (That pub is stowed out!) • swallae - to swallow • swatch - to look at T • tan/tanned - to do (I tanned ten pints last night!) • toaty - small/tiny • tube - an idiot/fool - should be spelt choob ![]() |
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![]() | I like it gazz10 well done ma san. |
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