- Auld – Old
- Aye – Yes
- Bahookie – Bottom/Backside/Butt
- Back-green – garden or back yard
- Bairn – Baby or Young Child
- Blether – Chatter-box
- Boke – Gag or Vomit
- Bonnie – Beautiful
- Boggin – Filthy, disgusting
- Braw – Good or Nice
- Burn – Stream or Creek
- Canny – Careful, or sometimes Clever
- Chancer – Con-man, Trickster
- Clarty – Dirty or Unkempt
- Clipe – This means to ‘tell on’ someone, or ‘snitch’
- Crabbit – Bad-tempered or Grumpy
- Dae – (pronounced ‘day’) Do
- Dauner – (pronounced ‘donna’) Stroll or Saunter
- Dinnae – Don’t
- Drookit – Soaking Wet
- Druth – Thirsty
- Eejit – Idiot
- Galoot – Idiot
- Girn – Complain or Whine
- Glaekit – Stupid
- Glen – Valley
- Greet – Cry
- Guy – Very
- Haud – Hold
- Haver – Talk Nonsense
- Keek – Peek
- Ken – Know
- Laldie – Scold/Reprimand
- Loch – Lake
- Lum – Chimney
- Mannie – Little man
- Noo – Now
- Wee Nyaff – Little nuisance (as in a person)
- Och! – Oh!
- Oxters – Armpits
- Peely-walley – Pale or Wan
- Pettet-lip – pouty lip
- Piece – Snack or Sandwich
- Pinkie – Little Finger
- Scunner – Nuisance
- Scunnered – Bored or Fed-Up
- Skelp – Slap
- Skyte – To slip or slide across a hard surface
- A Skelping – A Thrashing
- Slitter – Messy Eater
- Tattie – Potato
- Tumshie (aka ‘Neeps’) – Turnip (or Rutabaga in the US)
SOME INTERESTING PHRASES/ PRZYDATNE ZWROTY
Wheesht! – Be quiet!
Weegie – is a person from Glasgow
Shunky – toilet
Pus – mouth
Invershnecky – Inverness
Haver – talk too much
Hammered – drunk
Guttered – drunkwidnae – wouldn’t
didnae – didn’t
shidnae – shouldn’t
cidnae – couldn’t -
Here’s a list of 50 Scottish words you can learn:) Very nice!
Przedstawiam listę 50-ciu szkockich słów, których warto się nauczyć:http://www.slideshare.net/nicolaswankie/50-weird-scottish-words
Great videos about Scottish words – with explanation. Have fun!
Świetne video na temat szkockich słowek, można się wiele nauczyć – polecam!
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How to pronounce some of those really hard words? Here’s another really educative video:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-goWMkMVnjM]