Gransnet today....Just my opinion.

No grannyknot, it is fu' as in "full"!!

Isn't there a saying something like, with beer you're full before you're fu' but with whisky you're fu' before you're full? I may have got that wrong.

It'll sink under its own weight soon, Daphne it is floundering already.

Am I right in thinking that means

"Go (away) and boil your head" Daphnebroom ?

I know what the term "Jessie" means I just wondered if anyone knew why Jessie?

I wonder if it is because the man's name Jesse is so like the woman's name Jessie, so a big Jessie is a sweetie-wife (great soft lump of a man)? That is just a guess.

And then there's the Jakey! Usually a hopeless drunkard.

"See that auld Jakey? He jist papped his empty superlager can ontae the verandah."

Having no idea why 'Jessie' I decided to Google it (I'm surprised that Elegran didn't beat me to it ) This is what I found:

Jessie : noun a weak or effeminate man.

A Scottish and northern English term of ridicule which has become widespread since the mid-1970s, partly due to the influence of comics such as the Scot, Billy Connolly. It is synonymous with nellie and big girl’s blouse.
There are two proposed derivations for the word; the first is simply a borrowing of the female name as a term of endearment, the second is a Biblical reference to ‘a rod out of the stem of Jesse’, giving rise to jokes on the subject of masturbation, etc.

OOOer, Missus.

Now I'm wondering about CISSY as in a big cissy = a mammy's boy.

Back to Google, Granny23?

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.

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

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

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'.

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

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

Isn't fou in 'Tam o Shanter?'

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

I think unco is a shortened form of uncommonly.

He thinks not on the Lang Scots miles

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.

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

Tumshie is a turnip.

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!

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

Thanks Daphne and everyone.

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?

"Fair puggled" = knackered!

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"