What's your favourite coloquial expression?

[Odysseus]

Mine has to be 'braw' which signifies 'good' with strong connotations of food.
It narrowly defeated 'Glaiket' and 'Sleekit'.



[hr]Walk into the bright lights of sorrow, oh drink a bit of wine and we both might go tommorow, my love...

[onefinalstep]

"Pure quality" - used for anything thats either good or expensive in Glasgow

[hr]How can you ever sleep a wink at night
Pretending that everything is alright
And have the balls to blame this shit on me

Never in my life have I seen someone
So fucking blind to the damage he has done
You're the rotted root in the family tree

[Clonion]

Stocious - means very drunk. Banjaxed - broken/tired is another good one. Irish, maybe Northern Ireland, maybe Republic of Ireland, could be either

[hr]"If I want to quantify anything, I measure it against Clones. There is nothing you will ever encounter in life you haven't seen in some form in Clones"
Neil Jordan

[Insight]

Eejit!

[gouge]

"I'm not made o' brass!" when confronted with a price more expensive than anticipated

[Lindsay]

"Better an empty hoose as a bad tenant" Used after breaking wind, puking etc.

[hr]Think of me long enough to make a memory...

[AlenWatters]

That would be getting ones nat king as in getting your leg over...

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[Pinky but Perky]

[s]Odysseus wrote on 10:47, 9th Mar 2005:
Mine has to be 'braw' which signifies 'good' with strong connotations of food.
It narrowly defeated 'Glaiket' and 'Sleekit'.



[hr]Walk into the bright lights of sorrow, oh drink a bit of wine and we both might go tommorow, my love...


hmm.....well i always say poppet cos i call my academic kids that all the time (esp. John!) but i also say "shoot the breeze" (as in idle chit-chat) quite a lot...its hard to choose a fave though

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the knack is finding a grape that actually looks edible....damn you Tesco!

[johness]

does 'baw bag' count?

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[onefinalstep]

I should think so. "Dobber" and "Who are you lookin at?" should also be in there.

[hr]How can you ever sleep a wink at night
Pretending that everything is alright
And have the balls to blame this shit on me

Never in my life have I seen someone
So fucking blind to the damage he has done
You're the rotted root in the family tree

[Koala Boy]

Here is a selection of my favourites from doric (although clairted might just be general Scots)

clairted - the state one would be in if you played a full game of rugby in a muddy field

foosty - sort of an Aberdonian version of minging but not really. Think of some food gone mouldy, enough that you don't want to even touch it to throw it out. That's foosty. But you can apply the word to people you don't want to go anywhere near.

muckle - much. Particularly good in the phrase "nae muckle cope, min", which means "not much use".

scunner - something frustrating, an exam question one can't answer, for example, is a scunner. If one is in the state of frustration caused by a scunner, one can be described as "scunnered". Or possibly "scunnert" if you've got the accent.

swick - to cheat in a particularly cheeky way, or someone who swicks. Someone who jumps the queue for the self-serve tills in Tesco is a swick.

and here's the best thing Asda's ever done:

http://news.scotsman.com/aberdeen.cfm?id=251092005

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edited to add "swick" and the definitions

[sejanus]

Shooting the crow has always been a favourite of mine...

[Zombie Sheep]

I think 'baltic' is a pretty good one, said with the words 'It's fell' before and 'the night' after it in a dundee accent.

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[FURY-161]

"Tumshee" - from Doric, meaning "Turnip".
As in "Ach, ye wee tumshee heed".

[Fionnlagh]

I'll second "baltic", and I'll add "ach", "aye" (or "eh" as it is in dundee) and "awa and raffle yer muffle", I have no idea what my muffle is, nor what it means to raffle it however.

[flossy]

Penka - marble (or more specifically the jack)

She's a canny hinny- she's a nice lass

Hawey man pet- hurry up, love

guffie- pig

Overheard at parents' evening: "What's wor bairn done noo?"

[hr]Fare thee well eyebrows

[Blondie515]

Quoting gouge from 12:17, 9th Mar 2005
"I'm not made o' brass!" when confronted with a price more expensive than anticipated

other great yorkshirisms include:

"arf' baked" for sumone a bit thick

"well chuffed" when happy with something

"ee by gum" used randomly as "my god"

"kag 'anded" for someone whos clumsy

"od thi' osses" hold your horses- stop wot your doing

"drop't off t'perch" died

[Clonion]

Ooooh, a nice Dundee one I've heard on collections when I've been in the lion costume - "D'you want a cosy?" (Do you want a hug?)

[hr]"If I want to quantify anything, I measure it against Clones. There is nothing you will ever encounter in life you haven't seen in some form in Clones"
Neil Jordan

[flossy]

When I worked in Aberdeen for the summer I didn't understand the whole adding "ken" to the end of sentences and thought that it was just a common name in Aberdeen...

[hr]Fare thee well eyebrows

[bramble]

I still like the term snogging - i know i seem very uncool and about fifteen, but i cant seem to get out of the habit of saying it!

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