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Friday, December 08, 2006

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin-race

alrigh' so i's comin up tae christmas an here it is, the sco'ish wan hunner an wan. a rundoon oh all the words ah huv been spraffin an naebody kens wit am talkin aboot. rhonda hus kept trak an here it is the pure dead brilliant sco'ish dictionary two thousan an six.

well its almost the end of the semester and thus its finally here, the scottish 101 ! this is a list of all the words i have said which have left my poor bemused roomates looking at me with totaly confusion. rhonda has kept track of them an here it is the awesome scottish dictionary 2006.

1. squint - tilted
2. rubbish - trash
3. jab - vaccine
4. tea - dinner
5. crisps - chips doritos
6. juice - any (drinkable) liquid
7. apple sours - pucker
8. ice pole - popsicle
9. parcel - package
10. post - mail
11. match - game
12. trainers - tennis shoes
13. cling film - saran wrap
14. adverts - commercials
15. rank - disgusting
16. half eight - 8:30
17. I'll be there “the now”
18. cheers the now - see ya later!
19. knackered - pooped
20. aluminium - a British thing
21. boot - trunk
22. munter - really ugly person
23. muntered - really drunk
24. foosty - moldy
25. bin- trash can
26. bin bags - trash bags
27. trashed, reakened, reeking, trollied, bladdered, pished, sloshed - drunk
28. jumper - sweater
29. porta loo - porta potty
30. pear-shaped - gone wrong
31. 100s and 1000s - sprinkles
32. ice the cake - frost the cake (icing=frosting)
33. shopping trolly - shopping cart
34. snap - same
35. diluting juice - probably the greatest thing ever...why don't we have it
here?
36. fringe - bangs
37. flat - apartment
38. lolipop - suckers
39. plaster - bandaid
40. Miss World - Ms. Teen Kansas (Staci Klingsoidfja)
41. dungarees - overalls
42. pavement - sidewalk
43. slagging someone off - bitching, gossiping about s.o., dissing s.o.
44. tea towel - dish towel kitchen towel
45. boiler suit/overalls - coveralls
46. fizzy juice - soda/pop
47. waist coat - vest
48. vest - undershirt?!
49. willameenaminamary - wilma, great aunt
50. bolt - go away
51. radge - all in your face/crazy person
52. radgy - adj crazy
53. Yer pure aw in my face an tha - You're in my face
54. mental - crazy
55. nappies - diapers and
56. pack lunch - sack lunch
57. ques - lines (as in people)
58. They don't take showers in Scotland, they HAVE them.
59. Cello tape - packing tape
60. tele (telly per debbie) - tv
61. sweets - candy
62. steamin, blootered (pronounced: blue turd) - yet a few more words to
describe being drunk
63. kitchen roll - paper towels
64. skip - dumpster
65. polis - police
66. shotty - what look out says when authorities are coming
67. windy - window
68. weesht - shhhhh
69. Weest its all in the bunker cause thats the way I like it?!?! Yeah I don’t
know
70. hud your weesht woman - be quiet woman
71. lemonade - sprite
72. bunker - counter (only in edinburgh)
73. gutted - disappointed
74. pop - to fart
75. breeks - pants
76. pants - underwear
77. stone - 14 lbs
78. laggit (in sweedish) - how's it going.
79. tack (in sweedish) - thank you
80. cotton bud - q-tip
81. silent but violent - silent but deadly oooooo cool.
82. mizzle - not quite mist, but not quite drizzle
83. peely wally - pale, not tan
84. wide-o - someone slaggin someone off (dissing s.o.)
85. ned - non educated delinquet...really rude children
86. torch - flashlight
87. steamer - someone who's drunk allll the time
88. dummies - pacifiers
89. to niggle - niggling - eating away at your brain, bugging you
90. scaff - debbie cause she was gonna steal from e's. showing up to friends
house in rubbish (trashy) clothes, they'd be called a scaff.
91. engaged - busy (as in telephone line or porta potty thing)
92. guising - trick or treating
93. ace - Phillipa's cool
94. nae doot - no doubt
95. ghetto blaster - boom box
96. smarties - m & m's
97. refreshers - smarties
98. mars bars - milky way (mars bars are 3 musketeers)
99. nail varnish - polish
100. kip - sleep, nap
101. cutlery - silverware

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahahahahahahaha. Crazy Americans. They don't use "gutted" or "posh" either!

Philippa (Ace)

Debbie said...

wit words did ye no ken ? an aye it is pure ace likes.

Anonymous said...

i didnt make up mizzle, some one at uni in my marketing class said it one day and i encorporated it into my language...they might have made it up ! and munter is basically the scottish equivalant to minger !

- Debbie