Ray Gin Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Some 'barrie' Edinburgh words: Clype Dingied Dreich Gadgie Glaikit Mawkit Radge Scunnered Scran Shan Skelped Tidy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, been here before said: Guiser Dookin' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Tazio said: Never been sure of the spelling of choarie, as in, the act of borrowing something permanently. Chored. As in "That shan **** chored ma piece." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Words I'd never heard before moving to Edinburgh: Gadgie Barrie Chore Radge Shan The Gypsies certainly made their mark. Years ago an old guy I knew in Leith called his flat what sounded like his 'care'. I've never heard anyone else use that, but just now discovered the Gypsy word for a home is 'keir'. It only took me 33 years to find out what the boy old was on about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
been here before Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Im not sure if its soley an Edinburgh expression or not as the eeegies tend to claim everything as lart of 'the patter', but years back I lived in London and once mentioned to the lassie I lived with that Id "chum her for the messages". Utter bewilderment on her part. I forgot myself one weekend and went the the local newsagent and asked for a Pink. Much merriment and insinuations followed until it clicked I wasnt in Edinburgh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Gordons Gloves Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 When i worked on a farm nr West Linton and in the slaughterhouse in Biggar, towards the end of the day the farmer and some of the guys would say "time to get red up" as in, time to tidy up around you etc. Never ever heard it anywhere else. Am i alone in this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, been here before said: The correct spelling is choob. The incorrect spelling is tube. Aye? I though a 'tube/choob' was a sook. So tube rather than choob what did you think a choob/tube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Governor Tarkin Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, Craig Gordons Gloves said: When i worked on a farm nr West Linton and in the slaughterhouse in Biggar, towards the end of the day the farmer and some of the guys would say "time to get red up" as in, time to tidy up around you etc. Never ever heard it anywhere else. Am i alone in this? Nope, used to hear it all the time when I was a stonemason working with guys from East Lothian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, ri Alban said: Clattie for me, never say clarty. It's only clatty if your from the west and you can't pronounce things properly. It's clarty. It comes from claret. You from the west? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Sirudi said: My favourite childhood word has always been Maulicate. As in, I am going to maulicate you ya wee radge. A close second is Yoker, which referred to a brick or stone. As in, that wee radge threw a yoker at me. Did anyone else ever speak in “eggie” language ?? A long lost art I fear. Fegguck eggoff. Is there anyone still fluent in eggy language? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Kiss ma bahookie (sp?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graygo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Craig Gordons Gloves said: When i worked on a farm nr West Linton and in the slaughterhouse in Biggar, towards the end of the day the farmer and some of the guys would say "time to get red up" as in, time to tidy up around you etc. Never ever heard it anywhere else. Am i alone in this? My Mrs and her family all say red up, from Dunbar. Edit: As stated by GT above. Edited October 4, 2019 by graygo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmfc_liam06 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 26 minutes ago, FruitJuice said: Fegguck eggoff. Is there anyone still fluent in eggy language? Yip, speak it daily with the wife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 14 minutes ago, hmfc_liam06 said: Yip, speak it daily with the wife 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 17 minutes ago, hmfc_liam06 said: Yip, speak it daily with the wife What's it like when she talks dirty to you using it..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott herbertson Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, ArcticJambo said: In the Edinburgh History thread someone posted a picture, this one ... Not sure if it was captioned with the following info or if I sourced the info from elsewhere: Grassmarket 1904 - Grassmarket Mission Bairns Outing later know as The Barries after Alex Barrie appointed Super in 1916. (outings to beach at Porty/down coast) I'd like to think that perhaps it influenced the use of the word Barrie. Is Barrie a purely Edinburgh word I wonder? Nice to think that but I think it's just another Romany word: "Editor of Scottish Dictionaries online, Pauline Cairns Speitel, gave a number of examples of modern day slang that originated from Romani. She writes that the word "munter" (slang for an unattractive person) is a development from a Gypsy word "munt", meaning to weep. Adding that "Barry" (slang used to describe something very good of its type) has also been borrowed from the Romani word "barri", which also means "big or great"." I'm sure that those who went on the Barrie trips thought they were barry though.....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obua Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, been here before said: Guider Guiser We always spent the school holidays making guiders, big pram wheels were best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, graygo said: Should have someone keeping shottie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 4 hours ago, Morgan said: I’ve always thought it was ‘chorie’ Which, after you’d choried something you would have to ‘nash’ or ‘stoorie’. And of course, there'd be someone keeping shottie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 14 minutes ago, Boris said: Any idea why shottie? We used it when we were young but never got the logic to it. I've never worked out if it was short for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
been here before Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Was offering an adversary this 🖕 and extending an invitation to "smell yer ma" just an Edinburgh thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, FruitJuice said: Any idea why shottie? We used it when we were young but never got the logic to it. I've never worked out if it was short for something. Ah I see I was beaten to it! It's got the Romani ring to it too but I'd be interested to hear more. Having spent a decade in Holland I've long been interested in the links between Scots and Dutch, our Kirk is their kerk, our stane dyke is their steen dijk which is pronounced exactly the same, they even use ken like we do. Fascinating language, Scots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambojay84 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Big Slim Stylee said: How’s that English Lit degree going for you? Fantastic as it happens, now jog on 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Smithee said: Ah I see I was beaten to it! It's got the Romani ring to it too but I'd be interested to hear more. Having spent a decade in Holland I've long been interested in the links between Scots and Dutch, our Kirk is their kerk, our stane dyke is their steen dijk which is pronounced exactly the same, they even use ken like we do. Fascinating language, Scots. It is a fascinating language but when ever I see poetry in Scots I haven't heard about 80% of the words used. I think most words used in Scots are used regionally rather than everywhere. Not making a political point here but I think this is interesting. The poet Tom Leonard's famous poem 'the news' is/was used in the English school curriculum. It's categorised under 'poems from other cultures'. I wonder if a poem written in a Yorkshire dialect would it be classified from a different culture. Edited October 4, 2019 by FruitJuice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Kaiser Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Jobbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 31 minutes ago, Smithee said: Ah I see I was beaten to it! It's got the Romani ring to it too but I'd be interested to hear more. Having spent a decade in Holland I've long been interested in the links between Scots and Dutch, our Kirk is their kerk, our stane dyke is their steen dijk which is pronounced exactly the same, they even use ken like we do. Fascinating language, Scots. Is Dutch for 'brown cow' not something that sounds like 'broon coo'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Lemongrab said: Is Dutch for 'brown cow' not something that sounds like 'broon coo'? Nearly, bruin is brown, but it's pronounced the same as ours (ui = "ow") Koe means cow though, and that is indeed pronounced coo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, Mauricio Pinilla said: Heard bampot a lot but not bamstick. Shitebag is one of the top insults. Hear it a lot at tynecastle these days. Bamstick would have been before your time, M. @ri Alban is spot on though. It was usually the ‘keelies’ that said it, mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 5 hours ago, graygo said: Never heard of erky or erkie, always erchie for me. Dinnae want tae start a stooshie over it though. Edit: The Pans fellae used the stooshie word before me so I'll change mine to "pagger". A stooshie sometimes ends in a pagger though 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, been here before said: Guider Guiser Bogey, man. It was bogey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 49 minutes ago, Jambojay84 said: Fantastic as it happens, now jog on 👍 I think @Big Slim Stylee was just having a wee joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Anyone said “Gantin” as in disgusting. Had a kebab and it was “gantin”. Those shoes are gantin. “Loupin” pronounced Lowe-pin same meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 4 minutes ago, Pans Jambo said: Anyone said “Gantin” as in disgusting. Had a kebab and it was “gantin”. Those shoes are gantin. “Loupin” pronounced Lowe-pin same meaning. Gantin, Loupin, Minging are all good. How about ‘Boufin’ or ‘Hingin’? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 6 minutes ago, Pans Jambo said: Anyone said “Gantin” as in disgusting. Had a kebab and it was “gantin”. Those shoes are gantin. “Loupin” pronounced Lowe-pin same meaning. Like eskimos with snow, we have a lot of words for disgusting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, Morgan said: Gantin, Loupin, Minging are all good. How about ‘Boufin’ or ‘Hingin’? I'd just typed bowfin. Add boggin to the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Lemongrab said: I'd just typed bowfin. Add boggin to the list. Cool. Boggin and ‘bum flingin’. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambojay84 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, Morgan said: I think @Big Slim Stylee was just having a wee joke. apologies then I’m in a stinking mood tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 Just now, Jambojay84 said: apologies then I’m in a stinking mood tonight Happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb102 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Aye Morgan. My mate who was an auld nail anaw would keep shotties on the chorrie. Ifin he shouted nash the stoorie was on. Hes deid and I miss the radge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 4 hours ago, Ray Gin said: Some 'barrie' Edinburgh words: Clype Dingied Dreich Gadgie Glaikit Mawkit Radge Scunnered Scran Shan Skelped Tidy I told my current bird she had a tidy ***** when I first pulled her knickers off. She loved that. Tidy is a Barry expression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 28 minutes ago, Morgan said: Gantin, Loupin, Minging are all good. How about ‘Boufin’ or ‘Hingin’? Like boufin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Pans Jambo said: Like boufin Boufin is a better wied than Minging. Is cowp only used in Scotland? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 Just now, FruitJuice said: Boufin is a better wied than Minging. Is cowp only used in Scotland? Cowp as is “yer bedrooms a cowp”? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Pans Jambo said: Cowp as is “yer bedrooms a cowp”? Aye! I know a lot of people in England say that their fav Scottish word is Minging but I think boufin is a lot better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticJambo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Der Kaiser said: Jobbie Toley, and of course the skitters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 57 minutes ago, Pans Jambo said: Cowp as is “yer bedrooms a cowp”? Can cowp no mean to fall over too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, Lemongrab said: Can cowp no mean to fall over too? As in cowp ower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graygo Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, FruitJuice said: Any idea why shottie? We used it when we were young but never got the logic to it. I've never worked out if it was short for something. I thought it was short for shotgun, like in the cowboy films when the guy sat next to the boy driving the stagecoach with a gun. "Riding shotgun" He was the lookout for everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FruitJuice Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, graygo said: I thought it was short for shotgun, like in the cowboy films when the guy sat next to the boy driving the stagecoach with a gun. "Riding shotgun" He was the lookout for everyone else. I think you've cracked it. Brilliant thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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