Chris Benoit Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 We called chewing gum "chuggy" in high school. No idea if that's an Edinburgh thing...or even a thing. And of course, the shortened version of "chug" has completely different connotations... It was chuggy in Dunfermline too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ArcticJambo Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 The following link takes you to Leith Patter (I know but anyway) : http://www.oldleither.com/Leithpatter.html A lot of the words are probably generic and not specifically attributed to Leith/Edinburgh. 'Gies a bar' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GlasgoJambo Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I've heard just about all of these words outwith Edinburgh fairly regularly. The only ones that you only hear in Edinburgh are shan and barry. So true. Apart from shan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
topcat Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 There's a town in South Wales called Barry. That's a bit arrogant isn't it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tazio Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 There's a town in South Wales called Barry. That's a bit arrogant isn't it. Maybe Barry Fry should give up on football and open a chippy in Edinburgh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Auld Reekin' Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 (edited) its used in Essex though, namely Tilbury "Chore", as in steal, comes from the Hindi word chor, meaning thief. As the Romany language and people also have their roots in India, it could have come to eastern Scotland / parts of northern England from Romany travellers, or it could be one of the many words that entered the English language from the British Raj. I never heard "ben" used in Edinburgh: the first time I heard it was from my then girlfriend from Penicuik. I used to spend a bit of time in Newcastle in the early 80s and "mott" for an attractive young woman - very similar to the word "mort" mentioned by a previous poster - was widely employed down there. I've no idea as to its origins, though. I was surprised how much of the north-east / Geordie dialect and slang was identical to that in eastern Scotland. Edited October 14, 2013 by Auld Reekin' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sergio Garcia Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I have used "bunker" and "chum" all my live and I am from Lanarkshire. "Ben" and "Shan" are words I have only heard fairly recently. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gadgey55 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Anyone ever heard of the word 'yarries' for eggs?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest C00l K1d Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Is dingle a edinburgh word? As in ''SHUT IT YA badword DINGUL'' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fxxx the SPFL Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 some games i played as a bairn in Gorgie, 'guttery' involving marbles in the gutter, 'levoy' a game involving two teams used to be between the wheatfield and westfield lads and 'kerbie' one person on each side of the road and you used to try and chip the ball against the kerb. dont know if they are peculiar to edinburgh. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PsychocAndy Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Is dingle a edinburgh word? As in ''SHUT IT YA badword DINGUL'' West Brom fans call Wolves this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalamazoo Jambo Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Never ever heard of the word bunker being used to mean countertop until I read this thread Shan, chum, chore and the like were pretty common even in the rarified atmosphere of Balerno High Does everyone call the A70 the Lang Whang? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
winniethedog Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Gantin ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PsychocAndy Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Shoot the Craw meaning I'm In a hurry and I need to leave now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete Seeger Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 even chum and messages? and " a blackman" Yes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boof Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Gantin ? To gant is to yawn in Shetland, though I do appreciate what it means in the phrase "That's gantin'". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxteth O'Grady Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Never ever heard of the word bunker being used to mean countertop until I read this thread Shan, chum, chore and the like were pretty common even in the rarified atmosphere of Balerno High Does everyone call the A70 the Lang Whang? Aye. The pubs in Balerno were/are? known as Ma Browns and the Honkey although neither are really called those names. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxteth O'Grady Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 To gant is to yawn in Shetland, though I do appreciate what it means in the phrase "That's gantin'". I remember a Shetland lad that worked for me one summer thought it was amusing when I said I'd been grafting all morning. I meant working but he thought I meant knitting Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tazio Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I just accused someone in work of being a clipe and everyone looked at me like I was talking a foreign language. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leginten Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I just accused someone in work of being a clipe and everyone looked at me like I was talking a foreign language. Happens to me as well. It's a great word that has been supplanted by less interesting terms such as "grass". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Auld Reekin' Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I just accused someone in work of being a clipe and everyone looked at me like I was talking a foreign language. That's because it should be spelled 'clype'! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ted (Theodore) Logan Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Hornies-Police I heard someone refer to them as that recently and had never heard of it before in my life. Thought they'd just made it up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ted (Theodore) Logan Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 What about bagsy? eg... When playing tig "Cannae tig yer butcher, no changes, I bagsy" It made an agreement legally binding in the school play ground. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boof Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 When playing tig "Cannae tig yer butcher, no changes, I bagsy" I have no idea what that means We (Shetland again) have used bags or bagsy as staking a claim i.e. "I bags the front seat" or "Bagsy orange jelly babies". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ted (Theodore) Logan Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 I have no idea what that means We (Shetland again) have used bags or bagsy as staking a claim i.e. "I bags the front seat" or "Bagsy orange jelly babies". Aye, we'd use it in that way too. Cannae tig yer butcher meant, when playing tig, you couldn't tig someone straight back after they'd just tagged you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boof Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 That's a bit more quaint than "No tag-backs" which I have heard here Quite like that one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsalllaughathobos Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Barry gadgey, ken what a mean eh, Good man, know what I mean? yes? Just a baw hair, not far Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalamazoo Jambo Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Aye. The pubs in Balerno were/are? known as Ma Browns and the Honkey although neither are really called those names. In the village you have... Ma Brow's - The Grey Horse The Honky - The Malleny Arms Back in the day, you also had The Marchbank (spent pretty much an entire summer there in 1990 before the place burnt down!), The Kestrel and The Johnsburn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ArcticJambo Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I was speaking to my mum and she knew the bunker as the deep sink in the kitchen where her mum did the washing. My dad knew the bunker, as the coal bunker ... they lived a street apart from each other between the Walk and Easter Road in Leith between the mid forties and 1968. Was a 'bag off', as in generally a wee necking and groping session a common term outwith Edinburgh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PsychocAndy Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 "Cuddle ma humf" or just "cuddle it" or is that just Panners that say that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Debut 4 Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Sadly, a lot of these words are dying out through the generations. My Mum and Dad still use "Ben".....and I used it for a while when younger but I notice I don't use it now as an adult. I've stopped using bunker and say work top more often. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mipp Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 On 09/10/2013 at 23:05, Sooperstar said: Don't know what all this 'Ben' chat is about and I have lived in Edinburgh all of my life. As far as I am aware a Ben is either a name or a big hill. Def an Edinburgh word. Used a lot, as in; git ben (ie your parents might stay ‘get or come through here’ - or ‘get through there’). Or ‘it’s ben the room’, (in the room). Since I was a child in the 60’s even to the present day Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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