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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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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

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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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• 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
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• jake(y) - a homeless or unkempt person (usually describing an alcoholic)
• jessie/jessy - wimp/ big girl's blouse
• jobby - a single stool (faeces)
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• 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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