Transwiki:List of Scottish slang words
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This is a list of Scottish slang words (and many that are not slang), with their meanings and where appropriate an example of their use.
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[edit] A
- amurNay - I am not
- am ur - I am
- aslaat - "I was like that"; i.e., I was remarked to say (So the boss sez tae me that I was lazy, and aslaat "Naw amurNay!")
- Aye - Yes
- Am'no - I'm not
[edit] B
- bairn- child
- baltic - really cold (It's baltic!)
- bampot - an idiot, unhinged person (He is a bampot)
- bastirt - term of endearment(awright Ted ya wee bastirt)
- bawbag - scrotum, pejorative (That guy's a bawbag)
- bawsed - drunk (I was pure bawsed the other night)
- blootered - drunk
- boaby - penis (She's pure gettin the boaby the night!!)
- boggin - smelly, dirty (That's boggin'!)
- boot - ugly woman (Shut it, ya boot!)
- bowfin - smelly, similar to howfin.
- braw - beautiful, as in 's'a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.'
[edit] C
- chib/chibbin - a chib is a weapon (knife, bat, wood) - chibbin is the adjective ("He's gonnae get a chibbin!")
- coupon - face ("What's the matter with your coupon?")
- cooch - lie down ("Cooch doon fae the night")
- cunt - triple meaning; either an insult (You're a total cunt) as part of a threat ("I'm gonnae kick your cunt in") or as a term of endearment ("He's a good cunt, him")
[edit] D
- dead - usually used with "pure" in front to describe something ( " thats pure dead brilliant!!!)
- dog/doggin - Having sexual intercourse in the back of a car ("Oh my God. they were doggin'!")
- Also skipping school (I couldny be bothered so ended up jus doggin it)
- dug - a dog
- Doss - brilliant, good. . ("that chicken soup was doss like!")e
- Donner - a walk (comin fur a wee donner doon yonder?)
[edit] E
- edgy - watch out (edgy the polis)
[edit] F
- feert - to be scared (I am faird of the dark)
- fousty - dark/damp
[edit] G
- geggy - mouth - "( Wheesht yer geggy")
- ginger - carbonated drink,
- Glaekit - not very intelligent
- gonnae no dae that - please do not do that
- gowpin/lowpin - sore body part - (My knee is gowpin)
- Gock* - to stare ("wits that bawbag gockin at?")
- Ged* - meaningless term ("wit ya dain ged?")
Goon - Idiot("Your a pure goon,man!")
- granpaw/granmaw Grandfather/grandmother
[edit] H
- hackit - ugly
- howfin/howlin - smelly
"Helfay" - That Young Lady Is Good Looking
[edit] I
Isnae - Is not ("He isnae there")
[edit] J
- jaked - being in a state of drunkenness (I was jaked last night)
- jake(y) - a homeless or unkempt person (usually describing an alcoholic)
- jessie/jessy - wimp/big girl's blouse
- jobby - a single stool; plural form "jobbies"
naw mate jobby means shitt
a stool is a shit ya clown
[edit] L
- liftit - to be arrested by the police
- loaby - hallway
[edit] M
- maw - mum (Aye yer maw)
- mawkit/ manky - very dirty (Your trousers are mawkit!! Ya manky wee bam!!)
- mince - rubbish/nonsense - (Dae talk mince)
- minger/mingin - originally a Scottish word for dirty/smelly/horrible thing or person
mink - pure fukin hardcore hefty mingers wehey ya mink get tae china ye stink ae pishh pally ya mad auld cheese baw rocket get it up yee
[edit] N
- napper - head
- naw- no
- ned- acronym for 'non-educated delinquent', useless waster, troublemaker
- nippin - nagging
- numpty - a useless individual/moron
[edit] P
- pan - break or disfigure (pan the windows in)
- pan breid - rhyming slang for deid/dead (ma dad's pan breid)
- paw - Father
- pluke - spot ( plukey wee bam-cake) haha ya spotty bastard BAM CAKE a mean wit the fukin cheese baws is tht ye couple ae fannys
- pure - very, totally (I was pure drunk last night)
- polis - the police
[edit] S
- skonn - to hit with a thrown object -(Some diddy just skonned the back of ma napper wi a pie)
- scooby - clue, (Dae hae 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
- scunnurt - fed up (Ah'm pure scunnurt)
- shottie - an Edinburgh and Lothians term meaning "Look out" - (goan keep shottie while ah chorey some tabs), (shottie! thurs a car comin)
- skiddle - to play in water
- skoosh - easy (That exam was a skoosh)
- slitter - to dribble food/miss the mouth
- Sook - big softee (ya wee sook)
- steamin - drunk
- stoater - a good one (he jist goat skelpt a stoater)
- 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
[edit] T
- tan/tanned - to drink (I tanned ten pints last night!) tanned means tae trash a car tae ya minkin bastards
- tan - smash windows ( im gonny tan yer windaes)
- tat - adapted from 'tart', as in 'I asked fae brown sauce, you dozy tat!' (absent-minded woman)
- toaty - small/tiny
- tube - an idiot/fool
- teckle - brilliant, great (chiefly Dundonian) "that mince roll was pure teckle like"
