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Glaswegian |
English |
Example
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Translation |
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Pad aboot |
walk around |
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Paddy Wagon |
Police riot van |
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Pal |
Friend |
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Pan |
Break |
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Pan breid |
A loaf with a crusty
covering / Dead |
Ah've jist goat a text
message - ma faither is pan bread.
Oh my God - I've just found out that my father is
either dead or has been turned into a crusty bread. |
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Paps |
Breasts, from Gaelic as in the
Paps of Jura |
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Paradise |
Celtic Park |
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Pat and Mick,The |
On the 'Sick' (off work) |
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Patter |
Humorous chat / funny stories |
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Paukit |
Very small |
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Peallagan |
Young heather, used on the
Islay for weaving door mats. |
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Pearl diver |
Fiver, Five pounds |
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Peely Wally |
A sickly shade of white |
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Pee-the-Bed |
A viscous type of Scottish
dandelion which, should you have the misfortune to
touch, will make you wet the bed for months
afterwards. |
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Peg |
To have sexual intercourse |
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Pelter |
Panic. To give pelters is
to humiliate someone. |
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Pelting |
Raining heavily. |
It's fair pelting down
theday. Gosh is it
summer already!! |
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Pennie |
Apron |
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Perr |
Pair (That's a rerr perr o
jeans.) |
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Pettit lip |
Quivering lip that show
person is sulking. |
Ye neednae put oan thon
pettet lip yer getting nae mair chips.
No matter how much you sulk
there's no more food for you. |
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Peevers |
A kids street game -
otherwise known as hopscotch. Hopscotch: A
children's game in which players toss a small object
into the numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles
outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through
the spaces to retrieve the object.
Try doing that on your Xbox! |
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Picts |
The Picts were a
confederation of tribes living in what was later to
become eastern and northern Scotland from before the
Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century.
They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde
rivers, and spoke the extinct Pictish language,
thought to have been related to the Brythonic
languages spoken by the Britons to the south.
Many place names in
Scotland are derived from those Pictish times:
Pitlochry Pitmedden, Pittodrie etc |
Picts Rule
The Picts ruled for hundreds o’ years,
But sae soon they were forgotten,
A lot o’ people don’t give a damn,
But Ah think it’s blinkin’ rotten.
Yet they’re never quite oot ma mind,
And never oot ma soul,
For a think o’ them when e’er I go,
Tae Pitlochry, Pitcur or Pit-on-Mair-Coal.
[From No' Rabbie Burns by Stuart McLean] |
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Piece |
Sandwich |
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Piece poke |
Traditionally
this was the bag that contained your 'lunch' - the
term has now been modernised to 'piece tupperwear' |
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Piper |
A person who has no musical
talent and no friends. |
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Pish |
To urinated / Something that's
not good |
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Pish Pundit |
Bookmaker |
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Pished |
Drunk |
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Pit |
Put |
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Pit |
A big hole in the ground
that 'workers' risked their lives in to obtain coal.
In 1984 Abbadon Thatcher decided to close all pits
so that the workers could concentrate on being
miserable. |
Where dae ye pit a pit in
Pitlochry?
A Pictish conundrum. |
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Plaid |
Blanket A plaid or full
plaid is a pleated cloth worn with the modern kilt,
made from the same tartan and worn cast over the
shoulder and fastened at the front.
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Plank |
To hide something |
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Plook |
Facial spot / Acne |
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Pluck |
Parts of a sheep that are
used in haggis; sheep heart, liver and lungs.
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Plug |
To stab someone |
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Plunged |
Stabbed |
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Poaket Money |
Weekly allowance a child is
given |
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Poke |
Paper bag |
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Pokey hat |
Ice Cream Cone |
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Pollis |
Police |
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Prick |
Someone not liked |
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Puff |
Hash |
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Puggled |
Out of breath / Exausted |
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Puggy |
Fruit machine/pinball |
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Puke |
Vomit |
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Pure |
Very, pure dead good |
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Pushion |
Poison |
Ae man's meat is anither
man's pushion.
Warning: May contain nuts.
[From A Midge in Your Hand is Worth Two Up the Kilt]
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Puss |
Face - Usually only used in
the expression 'Shut your puss' meaning shutup. |
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