Scottish slang
A short list of Scottish slang, which is where Scots gets informal rather than regional.
About this list
The Scottish list is short because Wiktionary files most Scots words as dialect rather than slang. What remains is the informal talk of the street and the pub, electric soup included.
33 words
- cut about
- To go around (move from person to person).
- head-the-ball
- a stupid person; a nutcase
- long drink of water
- A tall person.
- mad with it
- Extremely drunk or intoxicated.
- cold iron
- A bad omen.
- House of Lords
- A urinal.
- electric soup
- Strong fortified wine.
- horny
- A cow.
- bam
- A ned; a bampot.
- cream puff
- A state of mild annoyance or irritation.
- ching
- Cocaine.
- footer
- To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.
- commotion lotion
- Buckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.
- hee-haw
- Nothing.
- wane
- A child.
- scud
- Naked.
- malky
- To slash with an open razor.
- wreck the hoose juice
- Buckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.
- Gorbals kiss
- A headbutt.
- up the kyte
- pregnant
- scran
- To eat.
- gub
- Mouth.
- tube
- An idiot.
- rocket
- A stupid or crazy person.
- mortal
- Very drunk.
- supper
- A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
- bunker
- A kitchen worktop.
- rake
- A lot, plenty.
- steamer
- A drinking session.
- hurl
- A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
- chipper
- A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
- mee-maw
- A policeman.
- whang
- To whack or beat.
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src/tools/thesaurus/generated/in the Tabularia repository. - Words are ordered by how often they appear in modern English, measured with wordfreq.