For Scots Grans (not political!)

“Sook” also describing someone as a “sook” would mean they were trying to ingratiate themselves or “suck up” to another person, as in a child being a a bit of a goody goody!

Siver is a street drain as is a stank, corrie jookit is left handed, collybuckie is a piggy back and a forpit is a measurement of weight - 1/4 of a stone.

grannyqueenie

“Sook” also describing someone as a “sook” would mean they were trying to ingratiate themselves or “suck up” to another person, as in a child being a a bit of a goody goody!

Yes indeed - I often call our black Lab 'a big sook' when he's putting on his big puppy dog eyes and trying to persuade you to part with some of whatever it is you're eating at the time.

Sorry - forgot to say that was for Charliegirl5

I describe my GS as puggled when he's milk drunk (iyswim)
I live in Scotland, not born here though.
It took me ages to work out why all these people were going out for their messages 🤣
I understand most local slang, my DD and now DGD (another generation another lot of words/new meanings to learn) are useful with this.
Dialect is a wonderful thing.

When we talked about someone being puggled, we meant they were drunk, but not as drunk as being blootered.

This has been such an enjoyable thread for me, as someone who is fascinated by language and its development.

What about stramash ?

Puggled just means tired out.
Puggies are something else of course: fruit machines. Someone can be, 'As fu' as a puggy'. ie drunk!

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.

There is a tune called " The Hen's March to the Midden " A bagpipe tune I think .

Does anyone rember this one . If my aunts were describing someone who was the boss they would say ( no idea of spelling ) " He is the heid pallydakus " They also described a cupboard as a press .

Ah yes ........ the lobby press!

Floradora9 I had totally forgotten about a press but I have never heard of the other.

Is being half cut a Scottish or English expression? Meaning half drunk.

Ben to me meant next.

Baffies were slippers

... and scaffies were binmen! (From scavengers, I think).

Aveline

Puggled just means tired out.
Puggies are something else of course: fruit machines. Someone can be, 'As fu' as a puggy'. ie drunk!

It definitely means drunk in the west. Tbats the beauty of language, all the nuances and variations.

Have we had stoating, meaning rock hard?

I told my physio today I was wabbit after the exercises! He’s Asian so new to him.

Borrheid it's a sair fecht, isn't it?
I hope the exercises are helping. x

I quite often see estate agents around here referring to properties having an 'Edinburgh press'. And I use sair fecht all the time.

It goes me the boak was another expression from my childhood.

All these words keep coming back to me, but I can't remember where I put my car keys!

Ah was it the dry boak? The wet boak is something else! These medical terms!
I confused my DGS by saying I was dressed like a tattiebogle. Actually, I usually am.

I'm afraid I must disagree with you Aveline, I find the dry boak is much worse! 🤒

I never said one was worse than the other. Nobody want 'the boak'!

As someone who has to put up with frequent nausea, I know which one I prefer. 😉 It leaves me scunnered, wabbit, exceptionally crabbit and beeling that I have no control over it.

There's another one, beeling/ bealing?

My patent used to say the rain was Stoating aff the pad

I’m not Scottish, except by ancestry, but words like stramash and wabbit were part of my childhood.

"*PURPLEPOPPIES*Its not slang ,its old Scots .