Driech as in its a driech day ootside
yer erse is oot the windae….you are revealing your bottom
boak . to be sick, a dry boak to wretch
bonglie – Highlanders call tourists ‘Bonglies’
Cushie meaning pigeon (From Lanark)
Gutties meaning Trainers (From Lanark)
Clatty bint …. dirty girl
awa an boil yer heed, ya baw heeded, potlicker, that’s pure dead brilliant …. is very Glasgwegian
I was dead crabbit, cos the weather was dreech!
guay strangy bairn… meaning babies nappy needs changed!
“auld strangy wifie” means “urine soaked old lady” use quite regularly re older people, never taken as offensive just observation
“the snow was so deep it was up to my oxters” The snow was so deep it was up to my armpits, “ive got an itchy oxter”
jakie
gadgie
wee swally
crabbit
waldies …… wellies
Radge
Bawbag
eejit
gomeril
stumor
Shoogle
peched ‘i am fair peched oot’
haud your wheest which means quite
giving it laldy
glaikit
scunnered
stramash as in “a stramash in the goalmouth”
getting in a “fankle”
aye
Ottie ‘I went out in the wind and me hair’s ottie’
Keech ‘Eech feech hen’s keech tolie bum fart’
Bowfin ‘Yer feet are bowfin’
Stoori Nash ‘I was late for the bus and I had to stoori nasj up the road’
Numpty
jaked
steamin
Skooby ‘dont have a skooby’
Choob ‘what a choob’ or ‘tube’
bisom ‘ya wee bisom’ which means difficult women, spoilt bratty girl
baltic cold
jobbies poo
peely wally
Blootered
awa an bile yer heid
I dinnae ken – don’t know
Blether – inane chat
It’s just as guid a’ Paisley Patter
cludgie
bonglie
greetin’ crying

Also some modern ones:
My friend’s son uses the chatroom abbreviation: kwam – as in “ken what ah mean?”

Please help us and tell us some more – keep our crazy Scottish words alive and use them as often as you can!

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