This category contains Scots pejoratives

Adjective

reekin o pish (comparative mair reekin o pish, superlative maist reekin o pish)

is this in transliteration or actual spelling?

Missing:

Balloon
Fanny
Prick
Spanner

last three of those are used as loan words in english

also no bampot -- fluent scottish speakers might consider making an edit there

Numptie is good.

no shitebag no credibility.

deej

Some personal regional additions:

Tube
Plook
Bin
Stank Monster

although it isn't eligible for this poll I'm a major fan of the adjective 'stoaty'

Fond as I am of the word bawbag, you really can't beat fud as a good old insult. Shitebag's a good 'un for the football.

(I have taught my phone to spell fud and bawbag and shitebag over the years)

Whither fannybaws?

wiki needs ye

fannybaws too new to be established, it's "the big man" from chewing the fat that coined that term, no?

tadger
cuntrag
wideo

walloper

tumshie

within the baws phylum there's also bawjaws, but that's maybe another chewin the fat one?

shut it ya clackerbag

ach awa in shite.

never heard clacker-bag!

"away and lie in your pish" is a good one as well.

need to remind you that SSL students may require translations here

urban dictionary is not picking up the slack where wiktionary fails

within the baws phylum = phrases i need to use sometime this week

tadger - penis
cuntrag - needs no translation
wideo - someone who is cheeky, impudent.

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:13 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

walloper - penis

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 23:13 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tumshie - turnip

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow)

what about 'stoaty' and 'plook

an old school one here: chanty-wrassler - useless person. literally means chamberpot-wrestler. someone who at night, no doubt in a crowded tenement room shared with many kinfolk, who is maladroit with their usage of the chamberpot and causes disruptive noise(?) or spillage(?).

never heard "stoaty", "plook" means pimple, zit, spot. "plooky" means "spotty"

chanty-wrassler

nice

aye it's a good one, but archaic. my grandad used to say it, most people my parent's age would know it, but no-one my age (late 20s) would use it, and no doubt many wouldn't have heard it, and it will have completely disappeared soon enough :c

wank as a noun, but not to denote the act of masturbation, but rather as a pejorative term for a person.

voted bawbag in absence of bampot

Whaurs Dunderheid?

Nyaf
Gowk

cludgie digger

plamf - don't know what this means, just a light insult. google search suggests it means "panty sniffer", ha.

dunderheid - simpleton. a good one definitely.

no heid-the-ba', no etc etc

love,
a passing sassenach

Aw, plamf is a good one as well.

Bawjaws will forever be associated with those spoof Dolmio ads that were doing the rounds about five or six years ago.

Trumpet, rocket and zoomer also missing.

Category:Irish Slang (no pejoratives for us) is a similarly odd selection:

C

Craic
Culchie

F

Feck

G

Gombeen man

G cont.

Grinds

J

Jackeen

K

Knacker

P

P45 (tax)

P cont.

Plastic Paddy

S

Sesh

W

West Brit

bawbag ftw

fud

is there a notable etymology to fud?

Wiki says it's related to German Fotze.

i'm wavering between deej and ned.

also missing: dobber

I bet if you did an ILX search on most of these it would lead you to a Scottish football thread.

What's the difference between a ned and a dobber?

a dobber's a bit like a dick.

ned is obv a pejorative but it doesn't really work as an insult, too generalised, never mind the class connotations. if it's successful here i'll be v disappointed. what makes terms such as bawbag and numpty work is that they are very nuanced.

Wiki implied that dobber was related to English chav, which I, perhaps lazily, thought was related to ned.

hm ya, chav and ned overlap a lot, but i've not heard dobber used in that way.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i'm wavering between deej and ned.

― Aimless, Monday, June 18, 2012 7:43 AM Bookmark

srsly!

Noun
deej (uncountable)
(pejorative, slang) A child with special needs; by extension, a person of low intelligence or having the appearance of a person with special needs.
(pejorative) Someone who is deemed to be a failure by their peers.
(pejorative) Used in similar manner to the Scots word glaikit.

Probably, because once one of my friends kept talking about how a character in Neighbors called her husband "dobber".

"haw toadfish, ya choob"

Am I the only person who thinks it's spelled 'tube' and finds 'choob' really weird?

i've never seen 'choob' before, i had never thought of it as anything but 'tube'

I see choob a lot in other places and it baffles me that someone felt tube needed a new spelling.

I've been wondering a lot if there has been a semi-official decision on how these words are spelled. Maybe a Scottish Slang Society.

I have a very definite sense of how things should be spelled based on tradition, pronunciation, derivation and various vaguely-cohesive workings of my mind (or just them being actual words with actual spellings), then people spoil it all with choob and jaikie and other such weirdness.

I write tube like a choob

I reckon that's a false cognate- doesn't it mean someone who grasses in australia?

yep. if you dob on someone to a teacher, you'll be a dibber-dobber.

nb: the teacher is not a dibber. it's just a way of emphasising one's dobbyness. (almost all dobbing is done to teachers.)

Someone once told me that 'dobber' had a sectarian root (as in Dirty Orange Bastard). I don't remember people using it when I was a kid - I kind of feel many of these were either made up (e.g. fannybaws) or died and got a new lease of life through Chewin the Fat ("gie's a gonk ya dobber").

From one of the hundreds of BOC threads, made me laugh.

AWAY AND EAT A BOWL OF PISH!! YA BIG PISH EATING ARSE CANDLE
― bolsey boy pudding and pie, Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:26 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Talking of old threads, now seems like an especially propitious time to revive this thread, a perfect example of some of the pejoratives already mentioned in vivid action.

Let's try that again

that is a corker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glbBNXAQhY

Can't see that, Nick... oh, sorry... whit's the fuckin' sketch here, ya walloper, ah cannae see a fuckin' thing.

how no? ya fuckin' (pause) balloon

Here, don't get fuckin' wide wi' me, ya cheeky article, ah'll gie ye a skelp, so ah will. If ye must know, ah'm oan a fuckin' train gaun fae Glesga tae that London, any obs?

Bravo btw, you're learning fast (xp)

Talk of 'tims' on the Rangers Have Gone Into Administration thread has reminded of something my dad used to say about his dad, my grandad (who died when I was too young to remember him), he used to say that he worked "timming sand boats". This was always said in the context of how he (my dad that is) not only never 'ad nuthin' ever and how he felt looked down on because his father only "timmed sand boats". This was entirely incomprehensible to me as a child but, thanks to the internet, I discover that 'tim' is a Scots word (verb + adj.) for 'empty' and a sand boat is some kind of dredger.

http://i.imgur.com/jgRjQqA.jpg

Anyone remember that word that sounded like "honners"? I don't know if it was the same word as "honours" but it was the term for somebody who would back you up in a fight. We used it constantly.

hauners. Like handers, as in giving you a hand, I believe.

Interesting. Never would have guessed that.

I sometimes suspect that when two Scots converse they only understand the half of what each other is saying.

Depends what circles they are from. It's been a long time since I heard someone who had a really extreme accent with lots of slang I didn't know.

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

Follae the maist recynt chynges tae the wiki oan this page.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3cMbfnW8AEDtQD.jpg

*swells with national pride*

Dying!

https://twitter.com/Hailtic/status/826138133142069249

on the same theme

heh, i like that even more

is that outside buchanan galleries?

yup

or "aye" i should say fuck sake man been in north america too fucking long

canadians are the acceptable face of north america tho tbf

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3cOuMUWEAAQryg.jpg

i'm starting to think i need to visit scotland

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3b8f3nWQAIEKrN.jpg

Don't know if anyone else noticed but, in his press conference with Theresa May, Trump said his mother was from Stornoway, "That's real Scotland." I expect Trump would consider these protestors to be not real Scots.

not true scotsmen, as it were

look at aw these fake fuckin', they've probably tasted a vegetable

fake fuckin' Scots

Whenever I see the latest brexit thread I think "ne'er cast a cloot till May is oot", which is the only way I've ever encountered that phrase, and that makes me think of this phrase, said of someone who's overfond of drink: "she could drink it through a shitey cloot"

ay cunts what about ye and this rock

aye keep talking deems ye pure roaster

Aye, like Rockall is part of Donegal, get tae France, ya wide-o.

I met a colleague's wife outside the office today and she said "I'm waiting for bawjaws" in reference to her own husband.

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/music/4201608/the-wolfe-tones-rockall-irish-vessels/

lol @ onimo's post