#scots
39 words tagged “scots”
Trainers, plimsolls, or any soft canvas shoes.
Grey, damp, miserable — the default Scottish weather forecast.
Belly or stomach — old Scots word still kicking around.
The boss. The top dog. The big cheese.
A nuisance, an annoyance, or a person who gets right on your nerves.
Absolutely steaming. Drunk beyond function.
Either absolutely steaming drunk or absolutely battered — context decides which.
Fed up to the back teeth, sick of something, completely done with it.
Mortified. Beyond embarrassed.
Filthy. Absolutely clarted in muck.
A sneaky cuppa with a wee something on the side.
Absolutely blootered — very, very drunk.
Walking with a limp — usually painfully and slowly.
Scots for backside, bum — soft, jokey, the one you use with weans.
Classic Scots exclamation of surprise — the Oor Wullie trifecta.
To hit something or someone with serious force.
To stab someone — or the blade you do it with.
Right now, just now — the Scottish 'at the moment'.
Tomorrow.
A sandwich — or anything between two bits of bread.
Afraid. Scared. Bottling it.
Pure rank, disgusting, makes-your-stomach-turn grim.
Mouth — or to give someone a proper hammering.
A sharp smack or slap — usually open-handed, usually deserved.
Filthy, clarty, in need of a bath.
Grand, smashing, good-looking — Scotland's all-purpose compliment.
A fright; to startle someone.
The bin men.
Get lost. Literally 'go boil your head'.
Today.
Scots and Northern English for armpits.
Sly, sneaky, smooth-talking — the kind you don't turn your back on.
Staggering drunk — bouncing off walls on the way home.
Geordie (and wider Scots) for house.
Told. Past tense, Geordie/Scots style.
In agony — or literally jumping/heaving with something.
Fizzy juice — any sweet carbonated soft drink, regardless of actual flavour.
Stupid-looking, gormless, vacant — that thousand-yard slack-jawed stare.
Gossip. Idle blether.