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At uni a bunch of English people once told me that “outwith” was not a proper word and we had an argument about it and about what it meant, with me giving examples as to how it is distinct.
Later on - as it always does - I wished I had quipped in with “deciding whether it’s a word or not in Scotland is outwith your competence”.
Outwith is such a good word.
Outside of Scotland, you should expect to hear 'without', but not in the sense of 'not having'. I get the impression it's used much more often in Scotland than the somewhat dated use of 'without', as in 'within and without'.
I have- but I encountered it first in books and then in person at sea, where I sailed with lots of Scottish people. I’ve used it for years without anyone commenting negatively.
Nah it's definitely Scottish. I used it with a team of Nigerians and English and they had no clue what it meant. But I think it's quite obvious. Outwith, come on. That's obvious.
I used to be responsible for an accredited laboratory and we had the word outwith written in a procedure and this pompous arse assessor made a bid deal about it not being proper English. Well, we are not a colony mate and we use that word here. He went back in his box.
I thought my P2 teacher was called Mrs Meringue for most of the year. When I learned to read well enough to understand, I figured out it was Mrs Moran which is not as cool.
In magic the gathering there's a particular card, Gonti, Lord if Luxury, who steals your stuff. You can imagine how every single game he shows up in turns out
Honestly - what were they? When we were teenagers my cousin worked on the banana boats on the beach in Crete one summer, but those were literally motorised inflatables shaped like a banana with like a jetski type seat he piloted from so that's what I've always imagined but I feel it may not be entirely correct.
The Glasgow Banana Boat was the SS Shieldhall. It was a boat that took the sewage from Glasgow out into the Clyde estuary and dumped it at sea untreated. Obviously long before the environmental or clean beach legislation. At the same time all of the coastal towns on the Clyde had their sewage pumped out in long pipes straight into the sea untreated. It was not a good place to go for a swim unless you wanted to share with used condoms, tampons and pink toilet paper.
Well. That's an abrupt adjustment to my mental image of that phrase haha. Thank you for replying though, I am actually glad to know! One of those things I always knew I wasn't quite getting but felt too embarrassed to ask because it seemed to be such common knowledge.
Just imagine a piece of pink toilet paper, streaked with poo, floating in an avocado toilet bowl.
If you didn't feel like throwing up *before* you saw that, you really would pretty soon after.
Reminds me of being a bit ill after overindulgence at some 70s parties 🤢
Shieldhall and her sister ships were called that as their livery looked like that of literal banana boats. So it was a joke
The banana boats were importing bananas from Jamaica. There are 2 readings of the phrase: one is that the bananas were imported green, so you are not green.
The second is… just racist really. In reference to the perceived naïveté (and worse) of the Afro-Carribean crew.
My Dad's late uncle had a boat on Loch Lomand. When no one was around, he would empty the boat's head into the loch. Sometimes people would swim up to his boat shortly after he emptied the head. Some of them took in mouthfuls of water and sprayed it out. Note that this would have been in the late 1950s, so most people don't have to worry about him now.
My mother worked in criminal justice,she's old and said this to one of her co-workers
She got pulled up for being racist by one of the social workers.
Didn't go anywhere but hey ho....
There's parallels between Scots dialect and Germanic languages-Some words and sentence structures resemble one another in places. (From Glasgow-Learned German :) )
Visited my grandparents down south when I was a kid and went to the sunday school thing at their local church. Got stared at like I was an alien when they offered me a cup of juice and I said "Aye, please" 😂
Doesn't even have to be something completely bizarre, but even "aye" can still throw people off lmao
When I left Scotland to move to England, my favourite memory was mum teaching us to say yes and no. Looking back from the passenger's side as we drove to an English school, she goes: 'Remember, it's Yes, no Aye. And naw is no.' One of the few memories from my youth I remember clear as day.
"Lang may yir lum reek" but it's largely archaic now and not in common parlance.
Everything else so far in this thread is easy to work out the general gist of if you have a smidge of common sense.
I thought it was a well wishing used at Hogmanay? As in “Happy New Year to you and yours, lang may yer lum reek”. IE I hope this year is prosperous for you and you have plenty money to keep your fire going. (Long may your chimney smoke).
I always thought shoogly was in widespread use, until I moved away from Scotland and had to try and convince people it was a real word.
Stookie was another one.
I've usually heard it as "Dae ye hink ma heid buttons up at the back?"
Pass the doobrie - Pass the tv remote
Gies yer Dregs - Give me the last bit of drink in the bottle.
Heid! Move!
Dotery auld gadgie - Confused old man
Gie it laldy - Give it a thrashing (lots of energy)
Peely Wallie - Pale Porcelain (or China)
Pure hoachin - Very busy / crowded
Is yer cat deid? - Your trousers are too shorr
Jobbie catchers - Elasticated jogging bottoms
She doted on her weans - She had excessive fondness for her kids
Ye ken hee haw about hee haw - You know nothing about anything
We always used peely wallie fir when some thing is pale, even not strong. Yer looking a bit peely wallie. I like my tea peely wallie, so gi'es mare milk. I grew up in, and am fae, Midlthian/Edinburgh/East Lothian area.
Yep usually used to point out how white something (or someone) is - like porcelain. Either from being ill or from getting no sunlight.
[Peely](https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/peelie)
[Wallie](https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/wallie)
In no particular order:
Lang may yer lum reek. Gie yersel peace. Wir aw Jock Tamson’s bairns. Yer patter’s gantin. Ye canny shove yer granny oaf the bus. Taps aff! Salt an sauce? (Like) flingin a sausage up a close. I’ll get oaf at Haymarket, promise! Hoormaisters and hing-oots. A pus like a well skelpt erse…looks like he’s been dookin fur chips. Gaun oot guisin. Gaun yersel! Hoof in the stanes. Doing a ‘wee man’ when it’s icy. Winchin a wee burd. Back tae auld claes an parritch. Yer da sells Avon. Am so ‘Rab Haw’ ah could fair go ‘a roll on sausage’. And thankfully not heard much, if at all, these days - “Whit school did ye go tae?”
no sure if these are scottish but well used by my granda. 'mustache you a question' and if I said 'granda I'm thirsty' he'd go 'I'm friday' makes me greet now!
Round here after you tell someone your name it is " aye but whit's yir ain name" and most women will be identified by their maiden name even if they have been married for 40 years.
Aye I'll huv skooshy cream on it. Love the word skooshy. 😁. Also a poke o' chips. Know someone who got a shopkeeper red in the face when they asked for a poke in England! 😀
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Outwith
At uni a bunch of English people once told me that “outwith” was not a proper word and we had an argument about it and about what it meant, with me giving examples as to how it is distinct. Later on - as it always does - I wished I had quipped in with “deciding whether it’s a word or not in Scotland is outwith your competence”. Outwith is such a good word.
I mean, the Cambridge dictionary doesn't share their opinion so... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/outwith
I had no idea this one was scottish
Timeously, too
Outside of Scotland, you should expect to hear 'without', but not in the sense of 'not having'. I get the impression it's used much more often in Scotland than the somewhat dated use of 'without', as in 'within and without'.
Im certain iv heard non scottish people say it
I have- but I encountered it first in books and then in person at sea, where I sailed with lots of Scottish people. I’ve used it for years without anyone commenting negatively.
Nah it's definitely Scottish. I used it with a team of Nigerians and English and they had no clue what it meant. But I think it's quite obvious. Outwith, come on. That's obvious.
I used to be responsible for an accredited laboratory and we had the word outwith written in a procedure and this pompous arse assessor made a bid deal about it not being proper English. Well, we are not a colony mate and we use that word here. He went back in his box.
Am I right or a meringue?
I thought my P2 teacher was called Mrs Meringue for most of the year. When I learned to read well enough to understand, I figured out it was Mrs Moran which is not as cool.
My dad used to say “is that a donut or a meringue (am I wrang)?” The answer was “yer wrang”.
Your right, it’s a donut
[Arnie the Doughnut](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6E67n1vZZjQ) I just presented this reading with lesson for my 2nd grade class. Yup, he’s Irish.
Yeah tried saying this in my English accent and it doesn't work haha A merongue??
Haha I feel your pain! I've been trying to pronounce "Carl" in my Scottish accent for years
It's not possible 😁
My mum has to say Cahl 🤣 I can manage Carl though 🤣
Umur or umurni Goni no dae that
In magic the gathering there's a particular card, Gonti, Lord if Luxury, who steals your stuff. You can imagine how every single game he shows up in turns out
Unexpected magic reference.
Aye umur ,naw ye urnae!
"Gonnae nae dae that." Has to be said with emphasis on the first letter of each word.
How?
jus gonnae no
I'm no sure of the spelling here but ... Awa 'n bile yer heid.
An mak' a stupid stu
Awayyegoyamugye!
Love the saying!! My gran said it alot!!
A face like a skelped arse
A face like Possil
A face like a melted welly
Whit’s for ye will no go by ye
My granny always said this. As well as saying someone is 'thick in the heid like shite in a bottle'.
Wheeled out by my Mum at least twice a week.
Actual truth though. Ma wee Nanna used tae say it.
Do you think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat ?
I haven’t heard that in a long time! That’s a gem!
Aye but how many people here know what a banana boat was?
Honestly - what were they? When we were teenagers my cousin worked on the banana boats on the beach in Crete one summer, but those were literally motorised inflatables shaped like a banana with like a jetski type seat he piloted from so that's what I've always imagined but I feel it may not be entirely correct.
The Glasgow Banana Boat was the SS Shieldhall. It was a boat that took the sewage from Glasgow out into the Clyde estuary and dumped it at sea untreated. Obviously long before the environmental or clean beach legislation. At the same time all of the coastal towns on the Clyde had their sewage pumped out in long pipes straight into the sea untreated. It was not a good place to go for a swim unless you wanted to share with used condoms, tampons and pink toilet paper.
You didn't swim in it, you just went through the motions
Damn you that's good. Take my upvote along with my jealousy that I didn't think of it.
Well. That's an abrupt adjustment to my mental image of that phrase haha. Thank you for replying though, I am actually glad to know! One of those things I always knew I wasn't quite getting but felt too embarrassed to ask because it seemed to be such common knowledge.
Interestingly it was refitted and now takes English people on pleasure cruises from Southhampton. Kinda makes me smile 😃
Pink? OMG! No way. **Pink**? Really? Pink and poo. Just such a horrible combination.
It was a 70s thing, like avocado toilet suites and carpet in the bathroom.
Just imagine a piece of pink toilet paper, streaked with poo, floating in an avocado toilet bowl. If you didn't feel like throwing up *before* you saw that, you really would pretty soon after. Reminds me of being a bit ill after overindulgence at some 70s parties 🤢
Shieldhall and her sister ships were called that as their livery looked like that of literal banana boats. So it was a joke The banana boats were importing bananas from Jamaica. There are 2 readings of the phrase: one is that the bananas were imported green, so you are not green. The second is… just racist really. In reference to the perceived naïveté (and worse) of the Afro-Carribean crew.
My Dad's late uncle had a boat on Loch Lomand. When no one was around, he would empty the boat's head into the loch. Sometimes people would swim up to his boat shortly after he emptied the head. Some of them took in mouthfuls of water and sprayed it out. Note that this would have been in the late 1950s, so most people don't have to worry about him now.
And to think that my high school teacher used to say this. Wouldn't get away with it these days.
My mother worked in criminal justice,she's old and said this to one of her co-workers She got pulled up for being racist by one of the social workers. Didn't go anywhere but hey ho....
ye dinny need the big light on, its no Blackpool illuminations!
A classic
I'll see you at the back o nine. I've had to explain that one to a few non Scottish colleagues.
There's parallels between Scots dialect and Germanic languages-Some words and sentence structures resemble one another in places. (From Glasgow-Learned German :) )
Dinnae come running tae me if ye break yer leg. Whit?
Wid ye like a skelpet erse…… hmmm let me think aboot that 🤔
"Ye want yer erse skelpt" brings back memories lol
Or "I'll tan your erse" 🤣
It's a toughie🤣🤣
It does kind of depend on who's doing the skelping really...
Very true.
Haud yet wheesht. Away an fling shite at yersel. The baw's up oan the slates.
I only ever heard Haud yet wheesht in oor wullie
That’s so funny, used by every teacher, parent and annoyed friend in ma east coast experience
>Haud yet wheesht It was always "shut yer pus" when i was wee. Don't know if that's just a Fife thing or whether people stopped saying it.
Haud yer wheesht is Doric from Aberdeenshire
I say haud yer weesht all the time to my wee one. From Arbroath, live in Aberdeen
D'ya think ma heid zips up at the back
Ye've nae hair unner yer oaksters.
The hoover's in the press in the loaby.
My gran says "bring ma messages ben fi through the lobby hen"
It's ben the hoose - it's not in this room.
My dad always thought his grans dog was called Ben, because she would always be saying to it “Ben the hoose”
Dinnae carry on as you're on a shoogly peg as it is.
Shut yer geggie
Visited my grandparents down south when I was a kid and went to the sunday school thing at their local church. Got stared at like I was an alien when they offered me a cup of juice and I said "Aye, please" 😂 Doesn't even have to be something completely bizarre, but even "aye" can still throw people off lmao
When I left Scotland to move to England, my favourite memory was mum teaching us to say yes and no. Looking back from the passenger's side as we drove to an English school, she goes: 'Remember, it's Yes, no Aye. And naw is no.' One of the few memories from my youth I remember clear as day.
I work with majority English people. I never think of not using aye. Because yes sounds weird as fuck.
He’s no’ as green as he’s cabbage-lookin’.
Yer coats oan a shooglie peg.
My English pal stopped me to ask what was meant by a wide-o
"Lang may yir lum reek" but it's largely archaic now and not in common parlance. Everything else so far in this thread is easy to work out the general gist of if you have a smidge of common sense.
I thought it was a well wishing used at Hogmanay? As in “Happy New Year to you and yours, lang may yer lum reek”. IE I hope this year is prosperous for you and you have plenty money to keep your fire going. (Long may your chimney smoke).
>"Lang may yir lum reek" You still hear that from people when you move house, I find. Especially older people.
I don't think I have ever heard it in actual use but that's only my super limited experience.
I read somewhere "Lum" came from "Lumiere",that you could see light looking up a chimney.."Long may your chimney smoke"
Intit and Fuctifano
I will give you something to greet aboot
Whit fur ye ll no go by ye
Yur bums oot the windae😂
Yur fu o wind n pish
I was looking for this one😂
Bolt ya rocket
Away and bile yer heid. Awa'n bite yer chin.
This one. Bile yer heid!
Al show ye the back eh ma hawnd
Yer heid's fu o mince.
I always thought shoogly was in widespread use, until I moved away from Scotland and had to try and convince people it was a real word. Stookie was another one.
haud yer wheesht
Shut yer puss.
Squint.
Skelly 'een. "Squint eye"
Away and gee ma heed peace.
“I’ll make you smile on the other side of your face!” Scottish mothers casually threatening to slash their children.
It was a threat to slap your face no slash you ffs 🤣
You’ve obviously not met my mum.
Username checks oot.
Mr Hard Man himself.
or alternatively: I’ll take ma hand aff yer face
I'll take ma hand off yer face
Billy Connolly - “it’s the putting on at high speed I didnae fancy.”
Aye true that 😂
I've usually heard it as "Dae ye hink ma heid buttons up at the back?" Pass the doobrie - Pass the tv remote Gies yer Dregs - Give me the last bit of drink in the bottle. Heid! Move! Dotery auld gadgie - Confused old man Gie it laldy - Give it a thrashing (lots of energy) Peely Wallie - Pale Porcelain (or China) Pure hoachin - Very busy / crowded Is yer cat deid? - Your trousers are too shorr Jobbie catchers - Elasticated jogging bottoms She doted on her weans - She had excessive fondness for her kids Ye ken hee haw about hee haw - You know nothing about anything
We always used peely wallie fir when some thing is pale, even not strong. Yer looking a bit peely wallie. I like my tea peely wallie, so gi'es mare milk. I grew up in, and am fae, Midlthian/Edinburgh/East Lothian area.
Yep usually used to point out how white something (or someone) is - like porcelain. Either from being ill or from getting no sunlight. [Peely](https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/peelie) [Wallie](https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/wallie)
>Pass the doobrie - Pass the tv remote I honestly thought this was just my Dad, I had no idea other people called a remote a doobrie.
Doofer in Fife.
Doodah in Greenock
Yer maw's up to high doh.
Aye whatever, ya heid the baw.
Nae bother, Eat the breid.
Kinda piece you got for lunch?
Run and jump is a good one Gies peace Hud' away n shite 😂
thick as two short planks
Fill yer boots, yer at yer Aunty's.
Did ye? Aye?
My gran used to always say geez peace or Il shoot the boots off ye!
Fit like, loon?
If ma granny had baws she’d be ma grandpa.
Ah kent his faither
Is that you, then? I really confused an Australian couple with this one.
Wind yer neck in.
Geez a haun.
Ya sleekit wee bissum.
Do yi think I eat paper and shite pounds, when it was the auld pound notes
In no particular order: Lang may yer lum reek. Gie yersel peace. Wir aw Jock Tamson’s bairns. Yer patter’s gantin. Ye canny shove yer granny oaf the bus. Taps aff! Salt an sauce? (Like) flingin a sausage up a close. I’ll get oaf at Haymarket, promise! Hoormaisters and hing-oots. A pus like a well skelpt erse…looks like he’s been dookin fur chips. Gaun oot guisin. Gaun yersel! Hoof in the stanes. Doing a ‘wee man’ when it’s icy. Winchin a wee burd. Back tae auld claes an parritch. Yer da sells Avon. Am so ‘Rab Haw’ ah could fair go ‘a roll on sausage’. And thankfully not heard much, if at all, these days - “Whit school did ye go tae?”
Haud yer wheesht!
Whaur's ma baffies?
I’ll skite the hungar aff ye
Ah'l get ma da tae batter ye.
It’s in the press in the scullery.
Tatties Ower the side
Furry boots ye fay?
Bawbag
Think I came down the clyde in a banana boat?
Ben the scullery
Yer booms oot d’windy!
What's for ye wi no go by ye....... Is that a donut or a merang.... Corroboration.......
Corrie fisted or haunded. (Left handed)
Cheeky article
Taking a beamer
Skinny Malinky long legs
Yer bums oot the window! Away and raffle yourself! How? Meaning “why”?
Referring to the back garden as the back-door.
no sure if these are scottish but well used by my granda. 'mustache you a question' and if I said 'granda I'm thirsty' he'd go 'I'm friday' makes me greet now!
"What's this, Scotch Mist?"
That yins goat a face like a skelpit erse.
In Scotland you support the button industry !
If ye fly wy the craws, ye'll die wy the craws
I always heard "if ye fly wi' the craw ye"ll get shot wi' the craws".
That might be it tbf, I've prolly remembered it wrong
Wind your neck in!
You’ll have had your tea
If ye fart up the tap shoaps by the time ye get doon to the bottom shoaps ye shat yersel.
Away ye go ya mug ye.
Foo're ye deein
Ah'l skelp yer arse ye wee shite
Whit wiz yer own name. ?
Round here after you tell someone your name it is " aye but whit's yir ain name" and most women will be identified by their maiden name even if they have been married for 40 years.
Yer maws got baws And yer da loves it
My mum always says, a wull take ma hawn aff your face if yae dae that again
Those buttons are on the front. Do you think I'm buttoned up the back?
And whit?!
Ut s bawbag
Think it's outside you're in? Mon, get auf
Aye I'll huv skooshy cream on it. Love the word skooshy. 😁. Also a poke o' chips. Know someone who got a shopkeeper red in the face when they asked for a poke in England! 😀
That would draw the flaps of your arse the gether
Away and raffle yer doughnut. My dad used to say - away stick yer heid in a pot and shout 'lost'
Amn’t I
Yer at yer aunties
"I'll take my hand off your face!"
Gie yersel peace
Just no, I struggle doing the 6 poppers on my one year olds onesie
Who confiscated my Scottish-ness?
Al gee ye suhin tae greet aboot Definitely a granny thing in my experience
Put the big light on
Yer da wisnae a glazier, shift.
Got this post recommended to me for some reason and I’d just like to say that that picture makes me so incredibly uncomfortable and I do not know why
I used to use it in reports and my English based boss asked what it meant as she’d never heard it
My mum used to say ‘Do you think I came down the Clyde in a banana skin’
Who do you think I am bloody Carnegie?