Appendix:Glossary of Scottish slang and jargon

This is a glossary of Scots, Scots English dialect and jargon with their meanings and, where appropriate, an example of their use. It's worth noting that Scotland has 3 languages (English/Scots/Scottish Gaelic) and a collection of different dialects.

Contents:	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Ah - I.

• a' - all.

• a'body / aabody / abidy - everybody.

• aboot - about.

• aff - off ("Ye're aff yer heid!")

• Ah ken - I know.

• Ah wisna(e) - I was not.

• Ah wiz like - I said. (So the boss says tae me that Ah was lazy, an' Ah wiz like, "Naw, Ah am'nae!")

• Ah'm ur - I am.

• Ah'm urny / Ah'm no - I am not.

• an' aw - as well.

• and but - suffix indicating that the speaker has now finished talking. ("We went doon tae Largs for fish an' chips, and but.")

• Anno - I know.

• auld - old (as in "auld yin").

• aye - yes

B

• baccy - tobacco ("Can you lend me some baccy?")

• baffies - slippers.

• bahoochie / behouchie - bottom.

• bairn - baby (jist a wee bairn!) or small child (Eastern Scottish dialect).

• baltic - freezing cold ("Christ man, put the heating oan, it's baltic in here!").

• bam - a fool or simpleton (from acronym BAM i.e. "below-average mentality")

• bampot - an idiot, unhinged person.

• banana boat - used in an expression of disbelief when told a tall story or blatant untruth ("Dae ye think Ah came up the Clyde on a banana boat(?)")

• banger - a firework. Also, penis ("Away you 'n' chew mah banger(!)")

• Barkit - dirty/unclean. ("Oaft, ma shirt is pure barkit")

• barra - a small child. Also, an affectionate term for a younger person (A wee barra.)

• Barras - a market, started by Margaret McIver, joined for the initial use of wheel barrows/"barras" to sell things from, at the Barrowland in the east end of Glasgow.

• barry - excellent / fantastic ("That's pure barry!")

• bastart - bastard. Also, rarely, a peculiar term of endearment ("Awright Ted, ya wee bastart.")

• batter - to beat up ("I'll batter ye! 'mon then, ya dick!")

• bawbag - scrotum, pejorative ("That guy's a bawbag.")

• bawhair - a unit of measurement denoted by the thickness of a pubic hair.

• bawheid - ballhead, bald, empty-headed, stupid ("Oi, you, ya bawheid!")

• baws - testicles.

• bawsack - scrotum (ballsack in English.)

• belter - to be excellent, great, fantastic.

• ben - down or through, or a mountain.

• bevvy - alcoholic beverage ("Ye havin' a bevvy the nite?")

• bez - beer.

• bide - stay/live.

• Big Yin - Big One, used as a term of endearment towards older relatives or friends. Also, the affectionate nickname for Scottish comedian Billy Connolly.

• birl/burl - spin.

• bit - a place; usually referring to somebody's house ("Meet me at ma bit." "Ah'll come round tae your bit." "Am stayin' o'er at my da's bit the night.")

• bits - boots, steel-capped or rigger, worn on construction sites ("You'll hae te wear ya bits on site")

• bizzo - business (from an episode of TV series "Minder".)

• blootered - very drunk.

• boaby - penis

• bobby - police

• boak - dry heave/expression of disgust ("Pure gie'in' me the boak!")

• bob - a shilling, or 12 old pennies pre-decimilisation; 5 new pence.

• bobee, bawbee - one half-penny in auld money.

• boggin' - smelly, dirty ("That's boggin'!")

• bolt - go away ("Wanty bolt!")

• bonnie - handsome, pretty, beautiful.(Come follow the bonnet of Bonnie Dundee)

• boot - slatternly or ugly woman.

• bosie - cuddle.

• bowfin' - sick-making.

• The box - television set ("Whit's oan the box the night?")

• brae - a hill.

• brammer - term of endearment ("Aw, he's a wee brammer, so he is.")

• brand new - really good, can be used to refer to a person. ("See him? Aye he's brand new")

• braw - good looking, beautiful; really nice.

• breeks - trousers.

• brief - car.

• broon - brown.

• Bucky - short for "Buckfast", a tonic wine popular in the West of Scotland.

• buftie - Homosexual ("Aye, ah'm a fuckin' buftie! So?")

• buits - boots.

• bunker - table top / kitchen counter ("Make sure yeez clean aw along the bunker when yer finished!")

• burd - Girlfriend, or girls in general (huv ye seen the state ae thae burds!)

• burn - small river or stream ("Let's awa' up that burn.")

• but - conjunction sometimes used to end sentences, commonly in Inverclyde ("Ahm naw gaun, but!")

C

• cannae - can not.

• canny - smart ("He's a canny lad.") or to be wary, or careful ("Ca' canny, lassie!")

• chankin - cold ("It's chankin' the day!")

• chebs - tits.

• chib - to stab with a knife, or to headbutt.

• chief - alternative for 'mate', 'dude', 'fella', 'big yin'. ("Awrite chief, wur ye aff tae the night?")

• choochter - see teuchter.

• chookie - bird.

• choon - song (from "tune")

• chug - to masturbate ("He was having a chug on the bus.")

• chum - to accompany someone ("Goan chum me to the shop.")

• claes - clothes.

• clart - to apply too much of something.

• clarted - covered in (mud).

• clarty / clatty - dirty ("He picked his nose and ate it, the clarty bastard!")

• class - Something that is really good ("That's pure class min!")

• cauld - cold ("It's awfy cauld in here.")

• close - an alleyway or passage at the rear of houses. The passageway leading into a tenement building. Humid weather.

• cludgie - toilet, or lavatory, originally outdoors. ("Ah'm oan the cludgie!")

• clype - a tell-tale, a grass. Also, to hit someone or something.

• coarse / coorse - to bully or torment, or to be bad. To handle in a rough fashion.

• cooncil juice / cooncil pop - tap water

• coupon - face. ("Some coupon on him, eh?")

• cowk - to heave or throw up.

• cowp - to knock over. Also, a skip or landfill.

• craic (crack) - chat ("What's the craic?")

• cripple- to make someone fall over or do something clumsy ("Did you see me cripple Andrew yesterday?")

• crivens - an exclamation. (See also "Jings, crivens, and help mah boab!")

• cuddy - horse.

• cummoan - let's go,~~ please talk sense ~~ (vamos,. sp)

• cundie - drain.

• cuttin' - hanging out in a directionless manner. Not necessarily standing still. ("I've been cuttin' aboot the toon aa day!")

D

• da - father.

• dafty - silly, foolish person.

• dancin' - discotheque, nightclub (Ur ye gaun tae the dancin' the night?)

• dangleberry - small piece of stool hanging from the hair around the bum hole.

• dander/daunder/daunner - a walk ("Comin' fur a wee daunner doon yonder?")

• deh - don't (deh dae that.)

• deid - very; usually used with "pure" in front to describe something (That's pure deid brilliant!!!) or if someone has died (" The big yin is deid")

• di - word used for grandad

• diddy - did he? Also means an idiot ("Diddy go tae school?" "Wait! Ye left yur keys, ya diddy!")

• didnae - didn't ("Ah didnae dae that!")

• dingy - to ignore, abandon ("He's dingied us.")

• dinnae - don't ("Dinnae dae that!")

• dircht - to wipe or clean ("Dinnae dircht ya grunzy on yer heshin!")

• diteit - stupid.

• div - idiot.

• dobber - a fool/stupid person. Also means "dickhead" ("Whit ye daein', ya dobber?!")

• Dodo Manson - needing a poop.

• doggin' - Having sexual intercourse in the back of a car, usually with spectators ("Oh my God. They were doggin'!"). Also, skipping school ("I couldn't be bothered so ended up just doggin' it.")

• dolton - an idiot.

• doo - a pigeon.

• doon - down. ("Turn that doon! Wiv got a fuckin' can thief! TURN THAT DOON!")

• doonhamer - Someone from Dumfries. Got its name from towns more North than Dumfries because people from Dumfries would say, "Ah'm gaun doon hame."

• Doric - Scots dialect spoken in the North East.

• dowp - backside, bottom.

• dreich - damp, overcast, wet.

• drookit - soaking wet, drenched.

• dug - a dog.

• dunderheid - an idiot, a fool.

• dunno / dinnae ken - I don't know.

• dunt - nudge.

E

• Eccie/Eccies - Ecstasy (the drugs).

• Elizabeth / Lizzie - Slang for coffin dodger / old cunt (Lizzy's in a box, in a box! Lizzy's in a box)

• Edina / Embra - Edinburgh.

• eejit - idiot.

• een - eyes.

• eh - what? Or, can also mean 'yes'

• empty - the residents who live in the house are not present and people take advantage by having a party in the "empty" house. ("Ma granny's got an empty, 'moan up fur a swallae."). Normally teenagers having a party in their own house when parents are away involves drinking, which they would not be able to do with their friends if parents were around.

• erse - arse (doric)

F

• fae - from ("Far aboots you fae?")

• fag - a cigarette.

• fandan - (short for "Fancy Dan") an overconfident, fandango, pretentious idiot ("That guy's a pure fandan, by the way.")

• fanny - vagina, pejorative ("He's a wee fanny.")

• fannybaws - a term of ridicule, in some cases of endearment ("Ho, here fannybaws, geis a chip.")

• fash - fuss, worry ("Dinnae fash yersel'.")

• feart - to be scared, afeared (Ah'm feart o' the dark.")

• feck - fuck, ("In the name of feck, ser.")

• fer / fir / fur - for.

• fitba' - football.

• fit like? - how are you? (Dorric)

• fir wye? - why?

• flamer - a homosexual, from flaming homosexual.

• flap - to become overly upset or worked up about something, beyond what others see as necessary (" Dinnae flap! We'll find yer wellies!")

• fleg - fright, flag reference to over-exuberant British nationalism ("He's a dirty Flegger.")

• flit - move house.

• foond / fund/fin - found.

• footer - to twiddle and mess about with something (courtesy of Mrs A. A Munro).

• forrit - forward.

• fu' - full (of alcohol), drunk.

• fud - vagina (Ah booted her right in the fud, man!) usually used as a derogatory term ("What fud publishes on Wikipedia?"). The tail of a rabbit.

• funt - slightly less offensive merging of the f-word and the c-word, which you can say in front of older relatives and get away with. ("That funt pushed in front of me in the chip shop.")

• fuck up - shut up.

• fuck all - nothing

G

• gadge / gadgie - East coast term for a bloke (That gadge is mental.)

• gads - exclamation of disgust. Used in the South West (predominantly Ayrshire and North of Aberdeen.)

• gaff - house, or a house party (she's havin' a gaff the night.).

• gallus - gallous, bold, cheeky, or flashy.

• gammie - an injured body part (Cannae play, Ah've got a gammie leg.)

• gan - go.

• gaun yersel' - congratulations.

• gaun - going (Ah'm gaun hame), or, go on and (gaun shut the fuck up.)

• gantin' / gaggin' fer it - begging for (See her, she's pure gantin' fer sex.)

• gash - vagina, or poor (Hearts are gash at football.)

• gie's / geez - give me - (geez it.)

• geggy - mouth - (Shut yer geggy.)

• geks - glasses.

• gem - game/up for (Pronounced by properly enunciating the G ((Hard G)), unlike the term Gem meaning jewel)

• gey - very

• ginger - pop/fizzy drink/soda (typically referring to Irn-Bru.)

• gingin' (pronounced "ging-in") - disgusting (He wis spewin' his guts up (being sick), it was heavy gingin'!)

• glaikit - stupid looking (get that glakit look aff yer fizzog.)

• Glesgae - Glasgow, if not a local (typically East coast Scots) "Glesga" is more often used by West coast Scots.

• goat - got (Ah goat it right!)

• gonnae no dae that - please don't do that!

• gobble - blowjob, or to eat as if starving.

• gob - mouth (shut yer gob), or spit.

• gowpin' / lowpin' - sore body part/infested with lice - (My knee is gowpin'.) - (Her heid was pure lowpin'.)

• goon - idiot (You're a pure goon, man!)

• graftin' - to like someone (“are you graftin' Ben?”)

• grannied - didn't score a single point (I was grannied at pool tonight.)

• granda - grandfather.

• greet - to cry.

• groond / grund - ground.

• grunzy - your nose.

• gutties - rubber soled sand shoes or gym shoes, from Gutta-percha, the tree from which latex and rubber are derived.

• gunt - Hearts fan, portmanteau of Gorgie and Cunt.

H

• hackit - ugly.

• hame - home (am away hame.)

• Harry hoofter- rhyming slang for "poofter" a derogatory term for a homosexual man.

• hauf - half; a measure of whisky.

• hauf 'n' a hauf - a measure of whisky and a half pint of beer

• haver - silly talk, nonsense/gibberish (stap yer haverin'.)

• havnae - have not.

• haun - hand (watch ma haun.)

• haud / hud - hold, stop "wanty haud that?", "haud the bus" (stop right there.)

• haud yer wheesht - stop talking.

• haw - a quick saying to get someones attention, quicker than saying "hello". (Haw, stop ya bawbag!)

• heavy - used to emphasise, "heavy shite" = awful.
• hemmin - term to get someones attention, equivalent "excuse me sir" (Hemmin, fit like the day?)

• hen - term of endearment for a woman, equivalent to "love" or "darling" (How ye daein' the day, hen?)

• heid - head (Ah've got a sair heid.)

• hee haw - nothing/empty.

• heid-the-baw - an idiot.

• heshin / heshun - your sleeves.

• heavin' (hee-vin) - very busy (This pub is heavin', ye cannae get movin'.)

• hirplin - to walk with a limp. (She hirpled across to answer the door.)

• hoachin' - full.

• hochmagandy - fornication, sex.

• Hogmanay - New Year's Eve (Happy Hogmanay!)

• hole - sex/vagina (She's gettin' her hole the night fer definite.)

• honkin' - smelly/dirty (Your breath is honkin' by the way.)

• hoore - whore.

• hoora - slang term for "very" (That Buckfast was hoora good.)

• Hoarse - a horse (“get aff ur high hoarse”)

• hoose - house.

• hoot - what (Hoot are you talkin' aboot?)

• howfin' / howlin'/ hummin' - smelly.

• how? - why?

• how no'? - why not?

• howzitgoan - greetings (Howzitgoan pal? Huvnae seen ye in ages.)

• huddy - idiot, stupid, lame brain.

I

• Inna -As well (Are you gan ti the boozer inna?)

• Isna(e) - Is not

• Int it/Int it no? - Isn't it? (This place is brilliant, int it no?)

J

• jag/jab - injection/punch

• jaggies - stinging nettles. (Mind the jaggies dinnae git ya!)

• jaked - being in a state of drunkenness (I was jaked last night)

• jake(y) - a person who is addicted to class A drugs or alcohol, and lives a poor quality of life as consequence / A down-and-out, a tramp.

• jamp - past tense of jump (used mostly in the Highlands, especially the Black Isle).

• janny - janitor.

• jessie/jessy - wimp/big girl's blouse/effeminate or cowardly man (he's a big jessie)

• Jim Delahunt - sports pundit and former presenter of Scotsport, rhyming slang for "cunt", female genitalia

• Jings! - Wow!

• Jings, crivens, and help mah boab! - expression of surprise or admiration, from the internationally famous comics "Oor Wullie" and "The Broons" by Scottish publisher D.C. Thompson

• jobby - poo; plural form "jobbies"

• jobby jabber - a gay man (derogatory slur)

• jump in - children usually ask an adult to go into a shop and buy them (children, under 18) alcohol, term is commonly used in Ayrshire (Ask him for a jump in)

K

• kelpie - a mythical water creature resembling a horse. Also a set of twin sculptures called "The Kelpies".

• ken - to know

• kip - a nap

• knob - slang for penis, in particular knob-end; an irritating or contemptible person (Whit a knob man!)

• knapdarloch - a piece of faeces hanging from an animal's fur

• kimon - slang for cunt

• kip - sleep/nap (If yur tired, try fur a kip." "am away fir a kip man, shattered)

• kippy - left (He's kippy-handed.)

• kirk - church (I can't get pished? Is this some kind of kurk?)

• Keech - Scottish for faeces. Can be used in a sentence for someone who you think is talking rubbish or nonsense (Listen ya bam awa an' stop talkin keech.)

• Keek - to peep or look

• ket - An alternate term for Ketamine

L

• laddie - A boy or young man (Aye, laddie!)

• laldy - Attitude/Effort of great volume (ah gave it Laldy!)

• lamped - To be struck soundly with a fist (eg. Boab wiz gettin' on ma tits, so I lamped him)

• lassie - A girl or young woman

• lavvy - A lavatory (toilet) (Am gaun' tae the lavvy.)

• lecky - electricity - often used in reference to bills (she didn't pay her lecky this month)

• lifted - to be arrested by the police. (e.g. He wiz totally pished an' the polis lifted him)

• lip - cheek (Ony mair o' yer lip an ah’ll skelp yer dowp)

• Li'ah' - like that (An' ah wis li'ah'​)

• loaby - hallway, lobby, passageway

• loon - boy (Aberdeen dialect), idiot (elsewhere)

• loupin - very sore/infested with lice (My heid is loupin.) also means smelly.

• loused - Finished, tired or shattered (I'm loused)

• lugs - ears

M

• Mare's meat - A vigorous and forward act (He's in there like a marr's meat)

• Ma Kelly-Ann - term for the Mrs, me and Kelly-Ann did this, my Kelly-Ann said that, me and Kelly Ann had a good pumpin' last night etc etc.

• mad wae it (MWI) - comprehensively drunk

• magic - great/excellent (That's pure magic)

• mair - more

• maist - most

• malkied - (from Malky Fraser - Glaswegian rhyming slang for "razor") Initially to have been hit hard, or chibbed... blootered/drunk/wrecked (Heavy malkied last night, pal)

• maw - mum (Aye yer maw)

• mauchit/manky - very dirty (Your trousers are mauchit!! Ya manky bastard!)

• meltit/melted - to be off one's face, usually on drugs - (Ah was pure melted man!)

• mense - Great or other words, a shorter form of "immense"

• messages - shopping (Maw sent me fur messages last night)

• mental - Insane, wild (that party last night was pure mental.)

• mibay/mibbe - maybe.

• midden - Outdoors rubbish pile, tip "this room's a midden!"

• min/mannie - mate (aw'right, min?), or any adult male (That's the mannie I wis thinkin' of.)

• mince - rubbish/nonsense - (Dinnae talk mince)

• minger - A dirty/smelly/horrible person or ugly person

• mingin - horrible/dirty (Your bathroom is mingin, this drink tastes mingin)

• mink - an unhygienic person (You wee mink.)

• minted - rich/wealthy (Look at his motor, he must be minted.)

• minter - pejorative for an unattractive female ("She's a minter")

• Mokit - dirty

• Mon then - A challenge to fight (Fuckin' mon' then ya wee dick)

• the morn - tomorrow

• the morn's morn - tomorrow morning

• motor - a car (originates from "motor car") "his motor's pure minted man!", "jump in my motor, I'll gie ye a lift hame".

• muckle - large (I caught this muckle fish doon the burn the ither day).

• munter - ugly person (That lassy you were winchin' last night was a proper munter.)

N

• nae danger - no chance / no way / no bother

• knackered - tired/exhausted

• napper - head

• Nat King - another word for intercourse getting your hole (from nat king cole)

• Nat King Cole - intercourse, commonly nat king cole, hole (rhyming slang)

• naw - no

• naw he didnae - No he didn't. Some credit Scottish TV sitcom Still Game as the origin of this expression, but it's a lot older than Still Game has been on TV.

• ned - backronym for 'non-educated delinquent', hooligan, troublemaker. Derived from Edward, as in Teddy Boys.

• neebur- Neighbour

• nip - kiss (gonae give us a nip) or a single measure of an alcoholic spirit, often whisky (geez a nip wi' that pint will ye darlin' )

• neeps - Turnips (neeps an' tatties)

• nippin - stinging

• nippy - curt or sharp-tongued person; spicy or peppery food

• noggin - head

• nugget - a less than valuable lump of matter, may be something hanging off your shoe or your backside, may be a person (Who's that nugget?)

• numpty - an endearing term/lovable idiot. Shows friendly banter (Och, Jonathan! You're a right numpty)

• nut - head, or another term used for the word 'not'

O

• Och awa' an' dinna talk pish - You're talking a load of rubbish

• oan yer bike - go away

• oan yer trolley - go away

• Onit - term used when drinking alcoholic beverages

• Onybody or A'body - Anybody

• oose - dust ball, dust bunnie, cobweb

• oot - out

• ory or orey or oary - Vulgar, common, lacking in social graces. Perhaps from "ore" i.e. unrefined material. Word may be peculiar to Dundee.

• outwith Outside or beyond (he lives outwith the catchment area for the school. That is outwith the remit of the report.)

• oot yer nut - really drunk (mate, get hame yer oot yer nut.), off your head.

• oxters - armpits

P

• Pan - break or disfigure (pan the windaes in) Also a name for the toilet.

• Patter - Banter (yer patter's sweet pal)

• Panbread - dead

• Pap - a breast

• Paps - plural form for breast

• Papa - grandfather

• Park - field

• Patch - to ignore someone, stand them up, or not respond to their texts, calls etc. ("he's pure bin patchin me aw week")

• Pedro - Amazing (Aww sur, that is Pedro)

• Peebrusht - rectum (from an episode of Minder) Surely derived from 'Pibroch' for pipe?

• Peedie - small (yer nae haf peedie ya ken)

• Peely wally - looking pale and unwell

• Pie - a Scottish version of a chav, also used as a general derogatory word ("Yer a pie")

• Piece - a sandwich (A had a cheese an' tomata piece this efternoon)

• Pimps - easy (That exam was pure pimps)

• Pish - piss. Often used to mean "bad"

• Pished - drunk

• Pizza Crunch - a pizza deep-fried in batter. Popular delicacy.

• Plastered - drunk

• Poke - a paper bag, or to prod someone with your finger

• Polis - the police

• Poon/Poond/Poonds - Pound/Pounds (either coins or weight)

• Pooched - broken, fucked, useless. (I pooched my bird up the closie last night) used in anger or expression, mainly used by people from Angus or Fife

• Poptae - An alternative for knob goblin

• Puckle - a few of something (not necessarily 2)

• Pucklie - a small amount

• Puddock - a frog

• Pumped - sex

• Punny eccy (or simply "punny") - punishment exercises at school

• Pure - very, totally (she's pure no right.) used to emphasise something.

• Plab - The name for a large soft and watery pile of faeces probably most akin to cattle dung.

Q

• quality - great/excellent (That film was quality.)

• quine or quinie - girl, young woman, (Aberdeen dialect)

R

• radge - Crazy, angry (he went totally radge)

• rat-arsed - Drunk (Lets get rat-arsed!)

• rank - disgusting

• Rebrov - Man of stature (that guy is pure Rebrov man)

• reekbeek - horrible, disgusting (That lassie is pure reekbeek)

• reid/reed - Red

• Reprobate - Unprincipled person, (Shut it, ya reprobate)

• roamin - Taking a walk (gone on the piss, no told the mrs an got lost)

• roaster - Someone who is making a complete cunt of themselves (Here, did ye see that roaster oan the X-Factor the other night?)

• rocket - a crazy or annoying person. General insult. ("bolt ya rocket")

• raging - Extremely angry; in a rage (you're pure raging, mate)

S

• Salt 'n' Sauce - what Edinburgh people put on their chips.

• Sannies - a pair of shoes , typically for sports. (sandshoe)

• sassenach - often used for an English person, Southerner, but more accurately it is someone born below the Highland Line.

• scaffies - bin men. Scavengers

• scheme - residential area, usually a council estate

• schule - school (pronounced "skull") (Ye no gaun' tae the schule the day?)

• scooby - clue, (no clue) From the 1970s American cartoon series "Scooby Doo" involving student detectives and a gormless Great Dane.

• scoobie - This spelling meaning is used instead of Subaru (Have ye seen Mikes new scoobie?)As above.

• score - Twenty pounds (currency)

• scramble - Scottish tradition at weddings where the groom throws small change out of the wedding car for local children to pick up.

• scran - food

• script - Plan, idea (What's the script?)

• scunnered - bored, fed up, exhausted

• scunner - one who pisses ye aff, also used when hurt yourself (oh ye scunner that hurt)

• session / sesh - a night out drinking (Me and the boys had a hoora session the other night) - This is also a term used in some parts of England and Northern Ireland.

• shan - a shame (that's shan as fuck, shan times) From Cant

• Shereen Nanjiani - a former newsreader and also rhyming slang for fanny, female genitalia (Ah booted her right in the Shereen Nanjiani).

• shin - shoes. Germanic, schoen

• shite - faeces.

• shitebag - a coward, someone who refuses a dare. ("You no gauny jump aff that bridge? Ahahah shitebag")

• shneeb - smoke.

• simmer - Calm down (That kant needs to simmer before he gets leathered)

• sink the link - engage in intercourse (Jim was sinkin' the link last night.) Link sausages as metaphor for male member.

• skelp - to smack or hit someone/thing (He telt me tae get ma tits oot so I skelped him) (I skelped ma heed oaf the heedboard)

• skelf - splinter (a just goat a skelf aff that piece o wood)

• skiddies - gentleman's undergarments with traces of last night's dinner

• skud - naked (Did ye see Jimmy? He was in the skud!)

• skyrocket - a particularly crazy person ("he's aff his nut, pure skyrocket man")

• sleekit - sly or untrustworthy (I widnae buy a car frae that sleekit bastard!)

• slitter - To dribble whilst eating (You better no slitter soup aw doon yer new jumper.)

• solid - hard, tough (I wouldnae say nowt tae him man, he's solid)

• sook - big softie (ya wee sook)

• snashters - sweets or goodies to eat.

• sneck/snecky, also shneck/shnecky (from the Gaelic Sneagaidh) - Inverness.

• snout - cigarette (example, "after this drink, you up for a snout?" "aye mate")

• sound - nice, cool or has a tendency to keep secrets well. Usually used in teens and preteens. ‘You’re proper sound, mate.’

• speccy - used to describe someone who wears glasses. ("Scuse me, mate! Is it true Glasgow's full of speccy bams?")

• spondoolyitis - a medical condition for talking shit

• spondoolies - money (as in, "Ye gaun tae the gemme the night?" "Naw." "Naw? How no'?" "Nae spondoolies")

• squint - not straight

• Squinty Bridge - colloquial name for a bridge in Glasgow between Finnieston and Govan, officially named the Clyde Arc so named as it is on a diagonal

• square go - a fair fight, one to one fight

• stay - live, as in to live in a geographical location.

• steamin - drunk

• Stoater - a beauty, the best of type

• stoor - dust. (Look at aw that stoor on the telly.)

• stovies - a Scottish delicacy usually made from stewed potatoes, fat, onions, meat and occasionally gravy.

• sup - small amount of liquid

• swally - to swallow, also means alcohol (Dae ye fancy gon fur a wee swally doon the pub?)

• swatch - Look (Gae us a swatch o yur fanny)

• swadge, swadging - To sit at a table, after eating, waiting for your 'second wind' so you can eat more (Nae more fir me, A'hm swadging)

• sweltering - roasting / boiling / very warm (it's absolutely sweltering today)

• swick - cheat

T

• tad - tiny bit (it's a tad small)

• tadger - yet another word for the male member (Next thing we knew, he'd whipped oot his tadger.)

• tae - to or, too (Going tae the game/ aye, and Stevie's coming tae)

• tait - a small amount of something (I'll only take a wee tait salt oan ma chips, no too much.)

• talking oot yer fanny flaps - lying

• tan - smash windows (I'm gonny tan yer windaes), or also a drink (Gonnae gies a tan ae yur juice?)

• tanned - to drink/drunk (I tant ten pints last night!) to vandalise (That hoose is gettin tanned)

• tap - to borrow money from someone (Can ah tap a tenner aff ye?)

• taps aff - (tops off) Sunbathing weather. In reality, any day when it isn't raining, particularly if the climate is suitable for outdoor Buckfast drinking.

• tassie - cup (especially one for whisky)

• tatties - potatoes

• tekul - good

• teuchter - someone that lives in the countryside, especially from the Highlands or Isles of Scotland

• that's a sin - what a shame

• toalie - jobby, shite, turd, crap, keech

• toaty - small/tiny

• toonser - someone from the city

• tube - an idiot/fool

• Turkish - a faeces (Gies the paper, ah'm away fur a turkish) from rhyming slang: 'Turkish Delight' - Shite

• twa - two

• twally - A person of lesser intellect

• Toorie - The purple head of the Spear Thistle (Scotland's national flower/emblem). This is also what the Highlanders call a penis.

• Tadger - Scottish name for a penis or can be used as a name for someone who behaves in an annoying manner (Get oot ma face ya tadger.)

• Troosers - trousers.

W

• wabbit - tired (I'm feeling awfy wabbit).

• wallap (pronounced "wa-lup") - to hit someone/something (Am gonnae wallap ye wan!) Can also mean to bang a body part (Ah pure wallaped ma heid aff that table!)

• wallaper (pronounced "wa-la-pur") - an insult, meaning idiot/moron/dick (He's a pure wallaper.) // Large (tha's ah wallaper ye goat there!)

• wan / ane - one (number or referring to an object person) "Wan table please." "Wit wan de ye want?" "Geez ane."

• wan - won (I wan the race.) Or referring to having 'one' (I'm having 'wan' of them days).

• wank - to masturbate or short for wanker (he's a wank)

• warmer - (pronounced "wahrmehr") another name for a fool, idiot.

• weapon - General insult. An annoying, disliked or foolish person. (he's a fuckin' weapon)

• wean - (pronounced "Wayne") the youngest of the family, sometimes the youngest sibling. Truncation of "wee ane" or little one. (give that to the wean!).

• wee - small

• wee yin- a person shorter or younger than you

• wee barra - Literally "Small fair haired child". Used as a term of endearment (generally boys)

• weegie - someone from Glasgow; from "Glaswegian"

• well - very "This band's well good." "Bed's well comfy."

• wench - A woman/female/girlfriend/wife. Derogatory term.

• We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns - we're all the same, we're all God's children.

• wha(e) - who

• wheesht - be quiet (haud yer wheesht)

• Whit - It means the same as 'what'.

• whit like? / Fit like? - How are you?

• Whitey - Throw up/be sick, usually from drinking too much alcohol (Am gonnae whitey)

• wifey - woman (usually referring to an older woman)

• winch - to French kiss someone (geez a winch.)

• Windae - Window.

• wit - what

• wur - our as in We took wur taps aff (took our tops off)

• winna/winnae/wouldnae - Will not / Would not. ("Wanna jump aff 'is roof lad?" "No, I winna dee at! Fuck yerself min!")

Y

• yaks - eyes/ mouth

• yaldi - an expression of deep joy

• ye - all you / you

• yeez - you / you'se

• yellae - yellow

• yer - your

• yer maw - your mother

• yer da - your father (yer da sells avon)

• yin - one (the number, or referring to a person or object) "The big yin is oan his way." "Ye want the big yin aff the shelf?" "yin ir twa")

• yocker - a large, but still throwable, stone.

• yonks - years, a long time ago. (A havnae been there for yonks.)

• yuptae - What are you up to? (yuptae th' night ya bawbag?)

Z

• zany - outstanding/crazy