Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

A turnip

I call a neep a swede

What's a neep?

"Nursing her wrath tae keep it warm." Burns could paint very graphic word pictures. You can just see Tam's missis prowling round the house waiting for him to come home, getting more angry every minute while she plans what she will say when he staggers through the door.

DH worked with a woman who would sit for half an hour on the bus each morning going over in her mind the latest aggravation. By the time she arrived at work a slight disagreement the previous evening had become grounds for divorce, and she would bite the head off the first person to speak to her.

One word we have not mentioned is "bisom" or is it "beesom". I would be described as a wee bisom if I had been naughty for any reason.

I call a turnip a turnip and not a swede. Another word I use is brambles where as in London they appear to be called blackberries.

I have been told a few times to go an bile ma heid as a child and even as an adult. I think that was a Fife expression.

DH said he always called a turnip a narkie I don't think I ever called a vegetable anything but the correct name, my mum was Hyacinth so I had to talk nicely

queenie's mum maybe was puggled after eating too much. Then she'd need to have a good swadge!

A turnip has always been a "Snadgie" to me FarNorth

We always called the truant man the "wag man" as in "playing the wag", (not that I ever did).

Thank you for your explanation re Jessie Elegran and Granny23 I still can't understand why Jessie though as there are other shared male/female versions of names. As Johnny Cash said, "Life aint easy for a boy named Sue"

"Fair puggled" = knackered!

My mum.used to say she was "puggled" if she'd eaten to.much and talk about someone being "fu as a whelk" if they'd drunk too much and she always complained of "hirpling" if she'd walked a lot! Isn't language fascinating?

Thanks Daphne and everyone.

"Puggy " in my part of the Borders meant "truant" and the School Attendance Officer was universally known as "the puggy man"

A puggy, as in 'fu as a puggy' is a fruit machine/slot machine. It was expected to be full of small change.
Jessie for effeminate male was in common use long before the 1970s!

Monkey?
I always knew a puggie as a belly/tummy.

Tumshie is a turnip.

The mosses, waters, slaps and styles
That lie between him and his hame
Where sits his sulky, sullen Dame
Gaitherin her brows like a gaitherin storm
Nursing her wrath tae keep it warm.

He thinks not on the Lang Scots miles

Yes indeed Galen Tam was 'gettin fu and unco happy'

I think unco is a shortened form of uncommonly.

Isn't fou in 'Tam o Shanter?'

I remember that expression but I think it was a 'a big tumshie'

Drunk was 'fu' as a puggie'. According to the Urban Dictionary, a 'puggie' in Lowland Scots is a monkey.

I don't know if this word existed or if it was my mother's invention but in our household a mummy's boy or softie was known as 'a big tumfie'.

Or it could be one of those pseudo-explanations, assuming a link because it is similar.

Cissie/sissie - I have found references linking it with Cecil/Cecilia, meaning blind. That could be a link to meaning weak and unmanly.

Sweetie-wife is another word I've only heard in Scotland. I don't think it means a gay man, more a rather sentimental one - many a grandfather who is definitely not gay admits to being a sweetie-wife.

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