Retro Slang

[BFTD]

I fear 'git' may be dying.

Also, you never hear anyone referring to buggery any more. Bugger off ya wee bugger, get tae buggery, away and bugger yersel. The word of my childhood.

Shocked and stunned when I discovered what it meant [emoji50]

[Big Chief Toffee Teeth]

  This one can be useful if ever in Wales. Do you know the way to Prestatyn?

 

 

And all the stars that never were

 

Are parking cars and pumping ... leeks?

 

 

 

 

 

[Billy Jean King]

That classic of many a retro Ayrshire cat fight...shut it ya boot !

[Big Chief Toffee Teeth]

Gallus thread!

It's the berries!

[Big Chief Toffee Teeth]

In fact, I'm intae it like a dug intae beetroot!

 

 

 

 

[2lgm]

I remember a few years ago loads of people in Inverness used to say “I’m sweating like a rapist”, not sure that’s one for the era of #MeToo

Or ‘sweating like a hooded rapist on a clammy night’

[2lgm]

You don’t hear keech or jobby much nowadays either.

[invergowrie arab]

Before neds we had the much more descriptive "chewny swinger" to desribe a young girl who might be seen with one end of chewing gum in her mouth and the other getting birled around her finger about a foot from her mouth.

Edited October 1, 2019 by invergowrie arab

[BigBo10]

You don’t hear keech or jobby much nowadays either.

My brother lives in Oz. His wee boy told his teacher when he started school “I’m burstin for a jobby!” She has no idea what he was on about so he just bolts to the bog, drops his knitting and shouts for all the school to hear “My bum needs wiped”. My sister in law was apparently mortified when the teacher began asking about “A jobby?” My brother couldn’t stop laughing.

 

[tamthebam]

2 hours ago, supermik said:

Keep shotty 

One used that one at one's posh Edinburgh school you know. Also a shout of "shotties" if the teacher was coming back to the class while we were pissing about. 

My dad used to describe someone looking miserable as having "a face like fizz". I heard someone else use it years later and I said that they were the only person apart from my dad who'd ever used it. 

Does anybody still use "it's a skoosh" for something that is easy to achieve? 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

'In yer puff'

In your life.

[heedthebaa]

Pretty much covers how i talk 

[The OP]

People from provincial* parts of Scotland claiming to have come up with “cushty” or “sweating like a rapist” is sad**.

 

*Shite

**Said in an Alan Partridge voice

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 minute ago, heedthebaa said:

Pretty much covers how i talk 

I don't see shite on the list.

[8MileBU]

laters. as in see you later. [emoji849]

Catch ye Versace!

[expatowner]

[Cerberus]

Will you nip my pal?

[Ylf]

tamo. pronounced tame o. someone who didn’t kiss etc

[Cerberus]

Scared of the beard.

[Hank Scorpio]

Folk at school who wanted to have a few draws of someone else’s cigarette would often ask the person, “leave me twos” or if it was the very end it’d be “threes”. If they wanted a whole cigarette they’d ask, “crash me a fag”.