- 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 - drunk
widnae - 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:
How to pronounce some of those really hard words? Here's another really educative video:
