Tag

#glasgow

15 words tagged “glasgow”

barras
noun

Glasgow's legendary East End street market.

#scottish#glasgow#places#market
malkied
adjective

Either absolutely steaming drunk or absolutely battered — context decides which.

#scottish#glasgow#scots#violence
wide-o
noun

A cocky chancer with too much mouth for his own good.

#scottish#glasgow#insult#people
scooby
noun

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

#scottish#rhyming-slang#british#phrase
honkin'
adjective

Absolutely reeking — a smell so bad you can taste it.

#scottish#glasgow#smell#british
chib
verb, noun

To stab someone — or the blade you do it with.

#scottish#glasgow#scots#violence
piece
noun

A sandwich — or anything between two bits of bread.

#scottish#scots#food#glasgow
closie
noun

The communal stairwell or entry of a Scottish tenement.

#scottish#glasgow#tenement#dialect
dinghy
verb

To blank someone deliberately — the Scottish ghosting.

#scottish#glasgow#social#ignore
mockit
adjective

Filthy, clarty, in need of a bath.

#scottish#glasgow#scots#dirty
weegie
noun

A Glaswegian. Person from Glasgow.

#scottish#glasgow#scotland#demonym
rid neck
noun

A face-reddening moment of pure embarrassment.

#scottish#glaswegian#glasgow#embarrassment
stoating
verb

Staggering drunk — bouncing off walls on the way home.

#scottish#glasgow#drinking#scots
loupin'
adjective

In agony — or literally jumping/heaving with something.

#scottish#scots#pain#glasgow
ginger
noun

Fizzy juice — any sweet carbonated soft drink, regardless of actual flavour.

#scottish#glasgow#scots#food