Scots English
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Arse Bandit |
To be Gay |
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Arse piece |
An insult said to someone annoying you |
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Arse wipe |
General insult |
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Aye |
Yes |
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Backie |
Help a friend climb a wall or to carry a passenger on a bicycle |
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Bahookie |
BUM |
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Baltic |
Really cold |
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Bampot |
Person of an unstable nature |
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Bamstick |
Akin to a bampot, perhaps a liitle more complex |
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Banjo sandwich |
fried egg piece with a runny yolk |
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Banjoed |
Getting hit, Punched |
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Bar L |
Barlinnie jail |
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Barras |
The barrows market |
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Barrbru, Babru |
Irn Bru |
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Barry White |
Shite |
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Bass, or Ya Bass |
Forever, like Tongs Forever. From some 60s gangs Italian background |
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Bass, Ya |
Bastard, word originally used by the gorbals gangs from the 1960s |
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Baw herr |
Ball Hair |
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Bawbag |
Ballbag, term of endearment. |
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Baws |
Balls |
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Bead Rattler |
Catholic |
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Beelin |
Angry |
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Beezer |
something good |
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Bell tinky |
Give it your all |
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Beltar, or Beltur |
Super duper. |
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Belter |
Something that is good |
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Berry's, The |
F*ckin brilliant |
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Big Hoose |
Prison |
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Bin |
Horrible disgusting person |
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Bingo Bus |
Police Van |
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Bint |
cow, bitch |
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Black Maria |
The large black police bus that takes neds to court from police offices |
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Black necks |
Dirty Person |
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Blawin fur tugs |
Knackered |
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Blazin |
Drunk |
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Bleach or bleached |
to hit or repeatedly hit with blunt instrument i.e a bottle |
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Blootered |
Drunk |
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Blow |
Hash |
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Boabie |
Penis |
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Boak |
Vomit |
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Boatle a' soup. |
Buckfast wine |
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Boattle |
Bottle |
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Bob Hope |
Rhyming slang for Dope. |
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Boggin |
Filthy, Dirty |
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Bolt |
Run, Flee |
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Bonce |
Head |
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Boost |
Going somewhere |
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Boozers |
Pub |
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Bottle Merchant |
coward |
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Boudo |
Money |
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Boufin |
Stinking |
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Brass Monkey |
Junkie |
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Brief |
Car |
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Bucket |
Bucket-bong, water implement used to smoke hash. |
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Buckfast Commando |
intoxicated, aggressive yet fearless individual |
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Buckfast Triangle |
Airdrie, Bellshill, Coatbridge |
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Buckfast Valley |
Lower Clyde valley, Lanarkshire |
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Bucky |
Buckfast Tonic Wine |
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Budgies |
Wearing your socks over your tracksuit trousers |
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Bufter |
Homosexual |
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Bufty |
Homosexual |
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Bum |
A person who can't fight |
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Bump/ Bumped |
Steal, Stolen |
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Bunty |
someone who gets bullied |
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Burds |
Females |
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Buroo |
Social Security |
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Buzzin |
Stoned, drunk |
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byraway |
used instead of a full stop at the end of every sentence byraway |
Scots English
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Calley |
Can of Carlsberg Special Brew |
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Cargo |
Carry Out - essentials from off licence |
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Cargo Shop |
Off Sales |
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Charred |
Drunk |
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Chavvy |
A word neds used to call non-neds, but is now used to describe neds.Or people from out of town. |
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Cheeba |
Dope, Hash |
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Cheeky water |
Alcohol |
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Cheers |
Thanks |
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Chib |
Knife, any weapon carried by a ned or adapted for such use eg. pool cue used in a bar fight becomes a 'chib'. |
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Chibbed |
Being like cut witha sharp object |
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Chippie |
Chip shop |
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Chong |
Hash |
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Choringchock |
stealing many |
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Claimed |
To say that something you've found is yours or that you are going to fight someone |
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Clatty |
Dirty |
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clint easterhoose |
a show af from easterhouse |
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Clockwork Orange |
The Glasgow Underground Train System |
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close |
Communal entrance to a tennemant building |
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cludgie |
toilet |
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Connle |
Candle |
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coo |
milk,ie. two sugar and coo or cow |
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Cooncil Joose |
water |
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Copper crack |
Someone with a dirty arse |
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Copper crack |
somebody with a shitty bum |
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Corpy |
Glasgow Corporation (Glasgow City Council) |
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Couldnae |
Couldn't |
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Council telly |
Normal tv channels only i.e. not Sky, Cable etc |
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Coupon |
Face |
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creashie |
rather overweight usually applied to ladies |
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Cumbie |
Gang name |
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Dae |
Do |
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Daftie |
Daft person, Idiot |
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Dancer |
Fantastic |
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Dancer, ya |
Really good |
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Dancin, The |
Disco or nightclub |
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Diddie Ride |
Using womens breasts to simulate intercourse |
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Diddies |
Womens breasts |
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Diddy |
Idiot or fool |
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Dile You |
Slash you |
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Dime Bar |
A person of limited intelligence |
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Dingy |
To ignore; or clatty - dirty. |
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Dobber |
Penis |
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Doin, Doing |
A beating |
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Donner |
A walk |
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Drum, The |
Drumchapel, area of Glasgow |
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Duds |
trousers |
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Dug |
Dog |
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Dug Van |
Small Police ' Wagon ' |
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Dull yin |
Something good, a cracker |
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Dunted |
A wee bit drunk |
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Eat the breed |
a glutton |
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Edge, Edgie |
Keep a look out ( Keep the edge). |
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Edgy |
Keeping a lookout. |
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Eejit |
Daft person |
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Electric Soup |
Cheap strong wine. e.g El Dorado or Buckfast |
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Emdy |
Anybody |
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Er the Polis |
There's the police |
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Erra |
There's eg. Erra gas lighters. 4 furra poun. |
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Erse |
Backside |
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Eye ball |
Meet a person |
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Fae |
From |
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fagit |
Fag Dealer |
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Fandan |
You Spazzy, idiot. |
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Fanny Batter |
vaginal fluids |
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Fanny Bawz |
A person who isn't too clever |
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Fannybaws |
A Person |
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Fanny-Struck |
In love |
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Fartsack |
Bed |
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Feegie |
Ferguslie Park area |
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Filth, The |
The police |
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Fleeing |
Mad wth Ecstacy |
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Fleeto |
Gang name |
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Foalian |
Following |
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Fossill Park |
Possilpark |
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Frankie Vaughn's |
Ryhming slang for hawns (hands) |
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Fuck wit |
Idiot |
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Fud |
Fanny |
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Fud |
Vagina |
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fu-git, fuggy |
F*ckin Nugget |
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Fugly |
F*ckin ugly |
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Ful eh it |
Drunk |
Scots English
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Hackit |
Ugly |
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Hairy |
Girl Ned |
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Hairy coo |
Highland cow |
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Ham Shank |
Wank |
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Hampden Roar |
Score |
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hat aff yae |
when a hat is stolen |
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Haw |
Hey |
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Haw Maws |
Balls or testacles |
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Hawd |
Hold |
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Hawfwit |
A simple person, A moron. |
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Healthy |
Good looking |
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Heavy Bongoed |
Drunk, Intoxicated |
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Heavy Scran |
A very satisfying and enjoyable main course. |
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Heavy Whitey |
When some one does something very gay |
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Hee Haw |
Nothing, eg.you're getting hee haw |
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Heid |
Head |
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Heid the Baw |
An Idiot |
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Heider |
To head a ball or a Glasgow kiss |
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Heidy |
Header, the ball |
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Hen |
Something all girls get called, substitute for 'luv', 'doll' etc. |
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Here you |
To demand someones attention |
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himshie |
a rather masculine looking lady |
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Hingoot |
Whore, woman of ill-repute |
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Hoachin |
Full of, bursting at the seems |
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Hon, Hawn |
Hand |
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Honkin |
Smelling |
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Honner |
(Hander) - people that step in for you in a fight. |
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Horti |
A form given to motorist by the Police (HORT1) |
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Hotty |
A weirdo |
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Huckled |
arrested by the Police |
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Hun |
Rangers supporter |
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Hunner |
Hundred |
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Jaggey Bunnet |
A Hat |
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Jaggy |
Supporter of Partick Thistle Football Club |
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Jake |
Cheap Cider |
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Jake, jakie |
A tramp |
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Jars |
Womens breasts |
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Jay |
A Joint (Hash) |
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Jen up |
Honest |
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Jile |
Prison |
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Jimmy Riddle |
Piddle, Piss |
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Joaby |
EXCREMENT |
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Joby Jabber |
Homosexual |
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Johnny Bags |
Condoms |
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Jubilee |
iced carton drink |
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Juke of Montrose |
A Dose |
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KB'd |
to get knocked back |
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Keech |
excrement |
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Keepy uppy |
To keep the ball in the air |
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Kerry oot |
A Carry Out |
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Keys |
Call a truce |
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kinna ? |
Can I |
Scots English
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Tadger |
Penis |
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Tagz |
Writing on walls |
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Tally Van |
Ice cream Van ( Tally = Italian) |
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Tan |
To smash a window |
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Tan |
To drink your booze very quickly |
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Tap |
Top, Football top |
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Tap |
A loan of money |
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Tarrier |
a catholic, usually of irish descent |
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Taxed |
Reserved |
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Ten Club |
Ned Girl |
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Teuchter |
Anyone outside Glasgow who does not have a Glasgow accent. |
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The boak |
sick or feeling sick |
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Tim |
Celtic fan |
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Tink |
Poor person |
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Toaty |
very small |
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Toley |
Jobby |
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Tonic |
Buckfast Wine |
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Tool |
Idiot,(you're a tool) |
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Toon |
Town or City Center |
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Toutin |
Smoking |
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Trackies |
tracksuit bottoms |
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Trippen |
Having a laugh |
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Troopettes |
A group of female friends |
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Troops, The |
Group of friends |
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Tube |
Idiot |
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Turn, a |
Criminal act |
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Ur |
Are |
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Urnae |
Aren't |
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Wacky Baccy |
Cannabis |
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Wagon, or Meat Wagon |
Large Police van |
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Walk, The |
Orange Parade |
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Wallies |
False teeth |
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Walopper |
Penis |
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Wan |
One |
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Wankered |
Drunk |
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Wee G |
Glasweigens |
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Weech |
Fling |
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Weegi |
Protestant Glaswegian |
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Weegie |
Roman Catholic Glaswegian |
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Weekender |
Arrested, Friday for court on the Monday. |
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Weeman |
Small person |
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Whit |
What |
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Whitey |
Sick |
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Wide-o |
Un trustworthy person |
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Widnae |
Wouldn't |
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Winching |
Snogging, Kissing |
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Windae licker |
Person with mental disabilities |
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Wine |
Buckfast (Tonic wine) |
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Wisnae |
Wasn't |
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Wull |
Will |
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Wur |
Our or were |
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Ya, ye |
You |
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Yersel |
Yourself |
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Young team. |
A young ned gang from a certain area. |
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Yur |
Your |
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Zebadeed |
mad wae it, on drugs |
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