For Scots Grans (not political!)

My DH is 'real sair made' trying to walk with his dodgy hip.
He is from Aberdeen and uses that expression to describe anyone walking with difficulty...and its rubbed off on me after 52 years and I'm not even Scottish!

We used clatty, rather than clarty. She was a clatty wee besom!

'Braw' is another lovely one. If you watch Scandi Noir TV shows (with subtitles), listen for the Swedes using it in a similar way to us. Years ago in a Youth Hostel abroad, a Norwegian girl told me that our languages share the words 'bairn' and 'kirk'. During lockdown, Lennie Pennie did some great 'Scots word of the day' posts on social media.

Girn is another word used certainly where I was brought up.

Aye, right which are two positives but meaning the total opposite.

Oh yes. We were often told to 'stop girning'.

I live right next to a clarty longing in winter time. My GC is often clartied up and I make a clart in the kitchen.

lonning [lane] not longing autocue mistake.

I have never heard of a lonning as a lane but I have often sat on a dyke for a rest.

Be careful of that these days Charleygirl!
I've never heard of a 'lonning' either.

Dh just reminded me of stank and siver(sp?)

Aveline pure, innocent me forgot!!!

Stank and silver are new to me.

My father fell down a stank as a child and broke his leg. They couldn't afford to see a doctor, so it was splinted with an old piece of wood. He walked with alimp for the rest of his life.

Brae is another long-lost word.

Brae is definitely not a long-lost word around here - I live on a Brae! And sivers just reminded me that it's been an awful long time since I saw the council going round cleaning the sivers - which probably accounts for some of the flooding we see any time there's heavy rain.

Marydoll

I have remembered another word, hoachin'.
I can't remember what I did yesterday, but these words are flooding back.
My mother used to talk about the midden, rather than the dustbin.
Midden was also used to describe a woman, who didn't keep her self nor her house clean.

May be only in Glasgow that an untidy house or room is said to be like ‘Annaker’s midden’. I think it refers to a pork butcher called Annaker, whose bins ( or midden) was looked through ( raked) by the poor.

Slitter to me is dribbling food or drink, and I would often let my children ‘plouter’ in the water in the sink!

Daddima, I still use ‘Annaker’s midden’, learned from my mother!

At the moment, I am looking at the Glennifer Braes from my front doorstep.

I used 'girning' about my wee DGGD just the other day. She was not tearful, just a bit miserable and off her food. No girning today!

Wee boys I knew used to love the 'siver sookers' which came along and cleaned out the drains.

Ah, sook is another word. I used to sook an ice cream or a sweet.

Just remembered a couple more....
A forpit of tatties
Corrie jookit
Collybuckie
Clipshear

I've not actually seen a clipshear for years, now that I come to think about it, Katek. And that's also reminded me of a few more animal/bird related ones - cushies, hoolets, brocks, bubbly jocks, puddocks and slaters.

Katek and Blondiescot you have lost me totally as I have never heard of any of them.

Aveline

Be careful of that these days Charleygirl!
I've never heard of a 'lonning' either.

A lonning is a country lane in Cumbrian, we also call hedges Dykes whereas, in most of England, it is a drainage channel.
Foxes are Tods and Toads are Chads.

I’ve loved reading all these expressions, sone I’d completely forgotten, haven’t lived in Scotland since 1969. “Puggled” is another one I remember my mother using when she was feeling worn out.
And you’re right Charleygirl it’s a happy thread and no one’s “gone off in a huff”!

Charleygirl5

Katek and Blondiescot you have lost me totally as I have never heard of any of them.

Clipshears are earwigs, cushies (or cushie doos) are pigeons, hoolets are owls, brocks are badgers, bubby jocks are turkeys, puddocks are frogs and slaters are woodlice.