So cause I cant sleep ive spent the night so far watching the accent tag on Youtube which I really want to do but havent posted on Youtube before so moved onto the Scottish Accent explained? But in all the videos ive seen they have all been from the west coast, near Glasgow and havent been able to find any from the East Coast where i'm from. I didnt realise how different we said stuff, or words they dont say that we do.
So instead of doing a Youtube video I decided i'd just type it up here. So here are words that are just generally used in Scotland or possibly only people from the East Coast or my area (Tayside/Angus) say.
A
aboot - about.
Kinda obvious I would think. So 'Is your Mum aboot', 'Whats your book aboot?'
ahbudy - everybody
'Ahhbudy was there'
ahcunt - everybody
'Ahcunt was there'
ah - all
'It was raining ah over' - 'It was raining all over'
anno - i know
'Its October' 'Aye anno'
aryt (awrite, alright, alreet) - Hi.
Well people from my area say it as hi - 'aryt lads' would be hiya guys. Can also be 'you alreet/alright' meaning 'are you okay?'.
Awrite is just the way people announce it in my area.
I dont think many people say alreet - me and my friends say it in a kind of Newcastle-ish accent 'You alreet love'
awa - away
'Awa to bed'
aff - off
'Fuck aff'
aye - yes.
'Did you have a good time?' 'Aye it was okay'
ave - i have/have.
'Ave done my makeup' or if it was a conversation like 'You done your homework?' 'Aye ave you?' I think ave is more just not pronouncing whereas ave is more regional?
B
bairn - child
'Your acting like a bairn' 'Your acting like a child'
baltic - freezing
Really cold, 'It's baltic in here'
balling (bawlin) - crying
'Shes bawlin' her eyes out' - 'Shes crying a lot'
bawbag - idiot (more of a West Coast saying but I know a few people who have adopted it around here)
'Hes a pure bawbag' - 'Hes a total idiot'
Me and my friends will say it more of a joke like 'Aryt bawbag' would just be us saying hi.
burd - girlfriend
I hate this saying, its horrible, if anyone described me as their burd I would knock them out.
But yeah its a name for your girlfriend like 'I'm with my burd'. (Actually we would say 'Eh'm wee meh burd' but i havent got round to explaining those words yet)
bevvy - alcoholic drink
I think its more older people that say this, 'You having a bevvy tonight' would be are you having a drink tonight.
blootered - drunk
'You're blootered' 'I was totally blootered last night'
bonny - pretty
'You're looking bonny' or 'caught bonny' which is like you were caught blatantly doing something while trying not to be caught.
boaby - police/penis
Boaby would be a word for a policeman, I can't think of a sentence I would use it in, but yeah.
Or penis, but thats more common I suppose? 'He's got a tiny boaby' - 'He has a small penis'
bowfin - smelly, smell really bad
'Mate your bowfin' - 'Mate you smell'
bra/braw - brilliant, good, great etc
'I had a bra lunch' 'That film was braw'
belter - idiot
'You're an absolute belter' 'Oh my god what a belter'
bellend - idiot again
'You're a bellend'
beamer - to have a red face [also known as a minter] or to embarrass someone/be embarrassed/be an embarrassment
'You're a total beamer' 'I have an absolute beamer' 'She gave me a total beamer' 'I have a beamer for her'
C
cannae/canny - can't
'No I canny do that'
clathes (claes) - clothes
'I'll need to go home for clean claes'
cunt - its an insult for someone
This one has a lot of meanings, where I grew up it was a word that was one of the 'bad swear words'. My age group now say it all the time.
I call my friends it, like 'Ayrt you cunt' as in 'Hi'.
It can be an insult - 'You're a total cunt'
Used in general 'Ahcunt was there/Naecunt was there'
For someone who's being moody or is in a bad mood 'Stop being a cunt'
Sometimes it's used as another word for vagina but thats horrible and really really slang
chookter - someone from Fife (Fife is in Scotland)
This one also has a few meanings but like I said I'm trying to do the ones from my area.
So if someone was from Fife you would say they were a chookter.
Can also mean someone from the country like a farmer.
chokin - need
I couldn't think of like a proper discription. 'Im chokin for a drink' 'I really need a drink'
cirby - hair pin [kirby]
I think they are also known as bobby pins? They are a bit of metal which is bent over on itself, usually straight one side and wavy the other?
D
dingys - yeah right
If someone says something thats bullshit you would be like 'Eh dingys'
daunder/dawnder - walk
'You want to go on a daunder later?'
dobber - idiot
Never really gets used anymore 'You're a dobber'
doss - good
'Thats pure doss man' 'Last night was doss'
drookit - soaking
'Its drookit out there' 'You're drookit'
driech - means its a horrible day [dree kuh]
Usually cold, wet, miserable, drizzling, cloudy (AKA everyday in Scotland)
doon - down
'Im going doon to the shops'
dogging - sex in a car in public
I didnt know this was just a Scottish thing, but if you were to go out at night on your own in your car and went to certain areas and (I think) you put your hazard lights on? So you would be parked in a car park or a park or at some sort of a spot where doggers go and you would put on your lights - i'm not actually sure what happens from there. I presume someone walks over to your car, or you walk to theirs? I dont know the code haha! But then yeah you would go have sex with a stranger, with people in the other cars probably watching. I think you can also bring someone with you and have sex and have other people watch.
I feel like Ive rambled about dogging too much.
dinnae/dinny - don't
'Dinnae do that'
dae - do
'Did you dae the washing up?'
didnae - didn't
'I didnae see anyone today'
dead - really
'Aww thats dead good' 'He's dead good looking'
diddy - did he
'Diddy dae that?'
down it - drink all of your drink
'I was running late so I just downed it'
dafty - someone who is daft/idiot
'You're a pure dafty'
dunt - drugs/hitting yourself on something
'So and so loves a dunt', 'So and so is buying a dunt'.
'I totally dunted my head on that door' 'He took a dunt to the head getting out the car'
E
eh - I, what, yeah
'Eh didnae dae that' [said ehh, start of execution - 'ehh'xecution]
If someones says something and you don't catch it you would say 'Eh?' [said more 'Aye/A'? not ehh, ahh or iye]
'Eh whatever you say' [said same way as first one]
emma - i am
'Emma go to the shops'
eejit - idiot
'What an eejit'
erse - arse/bum
'Stop being an erse'
F
fousty - old, damp, smelly, off, mouldy
'Eww its all fousty' 'It smells fousty in here'
fearin - scared
'I'm fearin after watching that'
fud - insult
'He is such a fud at times'
fag - ciggarette
'I really need a fag'
fanny - idiot/vagina
'Stop being a fanny'
fit - what/hot
Really only used in Aberdeenshire as far as i'm aware 'Fit did you say?'
'He is proper fit'
fit like - how are you
Again only in Aberdeen 'Fit like' 'No bad yourself?'
fae - from
'Where you fae?'
fuck aff - really?
'Spice girls are back together' 'Fuck aff are they?'
fancy man - boyfriend
My friend used to call her Mums boyfriend her Mums fancyman
Its now 04.56am, I shall continue this another day. As it is, I have to get up in three hours to get parts for my car, I will be dead if I dont sleep.
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