Which of these expressions are used in Scotland? And what are some Scottish expressions?

Question

bobbywaffle

mate

bloody (ie. bloody shoes!)

Chinese whispers

blimey

blooming

wallaby

fancy (ie. I fancy him/her)

me (ie. where are me socks?)

sod off

lass

lad

cheerio

balderdash

Answer 1

I have heard people say - mate, bloody, Chinese whispers, fancy and cheerio. I am from Glasgow. Maybe other parts of Scotland will use other words more frequently.

Some Scottish expressions (or Glasgow patter) are -

    * Bawbag — Literally ball bag, a slang term for s*****m, also a fool.

    * Buckie/Bucky — Buckfast Tonic Wine - cheap, strong, fortified wine popular with many teenagers.

    * Cleek — To refer to picking up a partner of the opposite s*x, cleek being the Scots word for a hook or crook referring to the linking of arms. A more colourful theory is that it originates from late night kissing couples on tenement doorsteps and knocking milk bottles to make a clinking sound[citation needed].

    * Daftie - A foolish person.

    * Dreepie - hanging from the edge of a roof so that your feet are as close as possible to the ground.

    * Electric soup — see buckie, also a Scottish comic book. Anything more alcoholic than tasty. To 'be on the electric soup' has an implication of loss of faculty.

    * Ginger — Any carbonated soft drink, though particularly Irn-Bru.

    * Hauners — A helping hand in a playground fight.

    * Jeg — Any carbonated soft drink.

    * Mad wi it — Drunk or intoxicated.

    * Mental — Tough.

    * Mintit - Cool/amazing.

    * Particks — A term for b*****s which came about through a number of slang words, an area of the city and a pub (The Partick Smiddy).

    * Pure dead brilliant - rather good.

    * s****. — Clue, rhyming slang from s****. Doo.

Answer 2

"Mate" is used all over the UK, but "pal" tends to be used more in Scotland.

Here are a few more

greeting- crying

mauckit- dirty

jobbie- poo

netty- toilet

awfurfukssake- oh dear

braw- good

amurnae- I am not

black b*****d- Ayr United fan (black here refers to the colour of the strip)

pissing yourself- laughing hard

Answer 3

mate

bloody (ie. bloody shoes!)

fancy (ie. I fancy him/her)

cheerio

With the following one, Scottish people are more likley to say "where are ma socks" rather than "me".

me (ie. where are me socks?)

Answer 4

your more likely to hear different slang words where ever you go in Scotland as i Live in Dundee i can only comment on the slang of Dundee.

Ken - know (ken what i mean/ know what i mean?)

lots of people say ew (as in like disgusting)

minging ( disgusting)

Pissed (drunk)

fancy (like or fancy someone)

Barkit (disgusting)

Bampot ( fool)

barin (child)

Dinnae (don't)

Fleg (fright)

eh (yeah)

Puss (face)

och aye (oh yeah)

Irn Bru (soft Drink)

Arab (dundee United fan)

g*y (homosexual)

Awfy ( awfy sick/really sick)

Blootered (drunk)

douche bag (stupid)

ar se hole (as s hole)

clampped ( can't say anything)

theres loads more there probs used all around Soctland but the youth have there own words for things thats just a few from Dundee.

Hoped this helped

Emilyxo.

Answer 5

Bobbywaffle - Eh?

Mate - Still in use

Bloody - Yes

Chinese Whispers - Yes

Blimey - Only London

Blooming - Old people

Wallaby - Once again, eh?

Fancy - Yes

Me- Much more of an English thing

Sod off- Still used, but not that much

lass - Older people

Lad - Older people

Cheerios - Last heard 1950

Balderdash - Old people

Answer 6

cheerio, fancy (there was an ad a few years back with the drunken guy going up to the girl he liked and saying... I really fancy you, so how about it?), bloody, mate.

Just a few words you might like to try out before you go. I haven't got a very strong scottish accent, so it wouldn't sound good calling someone a bawbag without the accent... try...

ned (non educated delinquent), basically a scottish chav, only worse. sportswear, fake burburry, think chewin' the fat youngsters, high socks, swearing, offering to beat you up... and drinking bucky... the usual.

never ever accept a glasgow kiss. a glasgow kiss is a headbutt. not so pleasant to a visitor.

craic. (pronounced crack), is nothing to do with drugs. if you say...what's the craic? you're asking, what's up? What's going on? what's the gossip? this expression is used everywhere in scotland.

When somone says I'm pure flush, it means they have money, probably just got paid. stick by them!!

My favourite Scottish word though is Blootered, means absolutely roaring drunk, completely pissed. it fits :)

It's just a few things to get you going anyways. Just a question though, what on earth is a bobbywaffle? a cross between a policeman and a waffle? pfft. and wallaby just sounds like an australian animal than anything else.