noun General Slang

scooby

· noun · scottish

A clue — almost always used in the negative ('I havnae got a scooby').

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A clue. Cockney rhyming slang ('Scooby Doo' = clue) that got adopted wholesale by Scotland and is now far more associated with Glasgow than London. Almost exclusively used in the negative — you don't 'have a scooby', you 'havnae got a scooby'.

“Don't ask me where she's gone, I havnae got a scooby.”
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scooby In A Sentence

Don't ask me where she's gone, I havnae got a scooby.

Origin & Usage

Cockney rhyming slang: Scooby Doo = clue, from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon (1969 onward). Adopted into wider British and especially Scottish use from the 1980s.

Variants scooby doo
Tags #scottish#rhyming-slang#british#phrase#glasgow

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