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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

While speaking away to my Manchester born manager I asked if he was trying to swick me, he’d no idea what it meant

Swick to me means cheat

He’d also never heard of a clootie dumpling or a cloot (Cloth)

Any other phrases you guys have used that completely confuses those you’re talking to?

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By *ringles0510Woman  over a year ago

Central Borders

Are these specific to Angushire? Never heard of them either x

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Haven’t heard those expressions either but love learning new words so thanks. I have a friend who’s Irish but has lived in Scotland for many years, I had to explain to her what oxters were and also torn faced

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman  over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!


"While speaking away to my Manchester born manager I asked if he was trying to swick me, he’d no idea what it meant

Swick to me means cheat

He’d also never heard of a clootie dumpling or a cloot (Cloth)

Any other phrases you guys have used that completely confuses those you’re talking to? "

Ive never heard of Swick either

Nor did I know what baffles were until a couple of years ago lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Are these specific to Angushire? Never heard of them either x"

They must be

Maybe it should be a question of “Does your region have any phrases understood by locals”

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman  over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

I know what a clootie dumpling is tho lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

A cauld weet Face cloot used to get rubbed in my face every morning to get me out my kip

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"I know what a clootie dumpling is tho lol "

Well the clootie comes from the cloth it’s wrapped in for cooking

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"I know what a clootie dumpling is tho lol "

You've significant clootie dumplings though

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

What about Skite? As in slip?

I think I’m living too far in the sticks now

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Christ that fell flatter than I expected

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman  over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!


"I know what a clootie dumpling is tho lol

You've significant clootie dumplings though "

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman  over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!


"I know what a clootie dumpling is tho lol

Well the clootie comes from the cloth it’s wrapped in for cooking "

yes

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Think I’ll go help Fermer Jim herd his sheep

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By *utdooryoneMan  over a year ago

Stirling

As a Cumbrian by birth, this post is ladgeful.

I'm gahn wee crack a deekaboot.

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By *edeWoman  over a year ago

the abyss

Never heard of Swick but the others yes

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I'm with ya groot I've heard of every single one but look where I'm from lol. Must be an Angus thing

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By *arpdiemCouple  over a year ago

dunfermline


"Never heard of Swick but the others yes "

This lol.

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By *uietbloke67Man  over a year ago

outside your bedroom window ;-)

Loused...

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By *mudg3rMan  over a year ago

Edinburgh

Yes I’ve heard them all but I’m originally Dundee where there’s a lot of strange words. “A plehn ane n an ingin’ ane an a’ “

I was surprised to read in a paper during the week that “ outwith” - as in “no parking outwith the following hours” - is a Scottish word.

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By *ToneCoupleCouple  over a year ago

Aberdeenshire


"As a Cumbrian by birth, this post is ladgeful.

I'm gahn wee crack a deekaboot."

eh?!

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By *ToneCoupleCouple  over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

We live near Aberdeen, it's a whole other language up this way!

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By *methyst4UWoman  over a year ago

Falkirk


"Loused..."

Finished work

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By *andy_FraserTV/TS  over a year ago

Edinburgh


"Loused..."

I used this the other day in our Teams chat and one of the younger guys thought I was saying I had Hair Lice???

My girlfriend didn't know what it meant either.

Mandy

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Loused...

Finished work "

Aye like “lousing time” end of the work day

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"We live near Aberdeen, it's a whole other language up this way!"

Well I’m born Forfar but worked in Aberdeenshire for near a decade dealing with lorry drivers so I’ve maybe picked up a lot from different places too

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Nut never heard of swick. But heard of cloutie dumpling I mind we made it at high school lol some kind of cloth used if I remember right anyone confirm ???

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Nut never heard of swick. But heard of cloutie dumpling I mind we made it at high school lol some kind of cloth used if I remember right anyone confirm ??? "

Yeah the Cloot in Clootie Dumpling is the cloth I can confirm

I’m actually spelling swick wrong it should be Swic or Swik in old Scots

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By *ringles0510Woman  over a year ago

Central Borders


"Loused...

I used this the other day in our Teams chat and one of the younger guys thought I was saying I had Hair Lice???

My girlfriend didn't know what it meant either.

Mandy"

I'd have guessed lice as well

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Bit of a google

“Gaelic survived as the spoken language of Angus well into the feudal period, but it was probably superseded by the Scots language by the thirteenth century, at least in lowland Angus.”

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By *ilted32Man  over a year ago

West Lothian

Aye like the Aberdonian shoe shop:

Assistant - "fit like fit fit ma quine?"

Which for the uninitiated is "how well does your foot fit dear lady?"

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By *sa and HarryCouple  over a year ago

motherwell

Twa bridies,a plain yin an a inginginanaw

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Or as we pass on a sign every day,

Ye May Gang Faur And Fare Waur.

“You may go further and do a lot worse”

Ironic considering it’s on the side of a restaurant that is absolutely disgusting

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

"The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car

Wheres the log book??

"Its in the dookit"

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car

Wheres the log book??

"Its in the dookit"

"

Haha I’ve never heard that one

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By *ighlander80884Man  over a year ago

Inverness


""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car

Wheres the log book??

"Its in the dookit"

"

What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car

Wheres the log book??

"Its in the dookit"

What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades "

I can say that as an ex employee of Renault they most definitely have and still do Use to have customers come in saying they had lost it and we’d go check the shelf at the top of the glove box and there it was

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car

Wheres the log book??

"Its in the dookit"

What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades

I can say that as an ex employee of Renault they most definitely have and still do Use to have customers come in saying they had lost it and we’d go check the shelf at the top of the glove box and there it was "

So it was in the dookit

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


""The dookit" for the glove box or bits you can put things in the car

Wheres the log book??

"Its in the dookit"

What's a log book, cars haven't had one of them in decades

I can say that as an ex employee of Renault they most definitely have and still do Use to have customers come in saying they had lost it and we’d go check the shelf at the top of the glove box and there it was

So it was in the dookit "

Deep in the bowls of the Dookit in the secret wee drarr whar it bides Ken

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"What about Skite? As in slip?

I think I’m living too far in the sticks now "

I'm originally from Edinburgh and skite was used eg "ye'll skite yer erse oan that ice" was well used as was clootie dumpling for Christmas or New Year.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"What about Skite? As in slip?

I think I’m living too far in the sticks now

I'm originally from Edinburgh and skite was used eg "ye'll skite yer erse oan that ice" was well used as was clootie dumpling for Christmas or New Year. "

Ah we had “I'll skelp yer arse” I think where I am I was it was a Christmas thing

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